The Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award will to be given to Spanish film Director Carlos Saura at the 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

• The 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI)  will be held in Goa on November 20-28.
• In course of a curtain raiser press conference on 53rd IFFI held at New Delhi today, Festival Director and MD, NFDC Shri Ravinder Bhakar stated that 280 films from 79 countries will be screened in course of the festival this year.
• Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, who received the Golden Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for Deprisa Deprisa, along with two Silver Bears for La caza and Peppermint Frappe, a BAFTA for Carmen and three awards at Cannes, among several others, will be honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award and an eight-film retrospective at IFFI.

Opening Film and Closing Film

The Austrian film ‘Alma and Oskar’, directed by Dieter Berner, will open the annual festival while Krzysztof Zanussi’s ‘Perfect Number’ is the closing film.