PVR in Mumbai usually robs you and turns you half richer by the end of a film festival, but not in Bengaluru. (Of course, again, this is relative to Mumbai standards)ĭelegates lining up on Day 1 of BIFFES 2020 / via FB Even for popular films like Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven, I was able to get inside the hall despite joining the queue just 10 minutes before the show. To my surprise, I found the queues much more bearable than how things are at other Indian film festivals. Also since Orion Mall was the largest of the four venues, I was also expecting serpentine queues outside each screen. Because I had planned my trip for the weekend, I was expecting huge crowds at the venue. Rajkumar Bhavana at Chamarajpet, and Suchitra Film Society (the farthest from South Bengaluru) In the 12th edition, BIFFES also had three more venues: the legendary Navrang Theatre at Rajajinagar, Dr. ![]() Here, I didn’t have to spend time travelling between venues, something that a lot of people complain about other film festivals in India like the IFFI in Goa (and something that I frequently observed at the EUFF in 2019). ( ) it is one of BIFFES’ biggest advantage over MAMI MFF where venues are scattered across places that are 10-30 kilometres apart from each other. Much like how it is for the Cannes The Cannes film festival takes place entirely at a single large venue – the Palace of Festivals and Conferences – which has a total area of 3,80,000 square feet containing, among other rooms and offices, 18 film screening auditoriums the largest of which (Auditorium Louis Lumière) can seat 2,300 people. Out of these, at the BIFFES, 2-3 are reserved for jury screenings. Eleven screens in a single venue is like a dream come true in a film festival organisation.And because there is no seat reservation required, there is only one queue per auditorium You follow the schedule for the day and directly enter or join the queue outside the hall where your chosen film is going to be screened. #Kumbalangi nights rangan registration#Unlike the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) – where you have to reserve your seats online on BookMyShow for each show – here your festival registration is sufficient. I observed the following things when I entered the film fest scene: I took a shower, and without grabbing breakfast, went straight to Orion Mall where PVR was hosting the film festival across 11 of its screens. The first day, after alighting at the Navrang Theatre junction, I walked to my hotel and checked in. My Experience at the Bengaluru Film Festival The biggest one being: is Bengaluru film festival worth going to? The short answer is yes. Essentially, these might answer some of your questions if you plan to attend it in the following years. ![]() #Kumbalangi nights rangan free#It was my first time at the festival, so I thought I would take the free time during this lockdown to jot down some of my thoughts about BIFFES. And this was an important trip for me because I was also in need of a break after a certain kind of failure in February. It was a fairly exciting experience for someone like me who – in my first solo trip – took a bus from Mumbai to Bengaluru just to attend the fest which is perhaps Karnataka’s biggest cinema extravaganza. I managed to attend the festival for two days and watch a total of five films. Earlier in 2020 before the Covid-19 outbreak paralysed all my travel plans, I was fortunate to attend the 12th edition of the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES).
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