MUMBAI: The PL Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy has joined hands with Asian Film Foundation to host the 10th Third Eye Asian Film Festival in Mumbai from 22-29 December.

The Festival will open with the premiere of celebrated Chinese filmmaker Xiaoshuai Wang‘s 11 Flowers. The centerpiece of the festival will be Asghar Farahadi‘s A Separation while the closing film would be director Ketan Mehta‘s latest film Ranga Rasiya.

According to Festival director Sudhir Nandgaonkar, over 400 entries have been received from different Asian Countries including Iran, China, Japan, Israel, Philippines and Indonesia. Out of these, 100 feature films and 50 short films will be shown during the week-long festival.

Films will be screened under the sections-Spectrum Asia, First/Second Film Competition, Short Film Competition, Focus on one Asian country and Retrospective.

While Ravindra Natya Mandir, at Prabhadevi, will be the main venue for the festival, selected films would also be shown in Thane.