SHILLONG: Acclaimed filmmaker Padma Bhushan Jahnu Barua will inaugurate a two-day documentary film festival on art and culture on February 18 at the Don Bosco Youth Centre here.
Organised by the Guwahati-based Film & Cultural Society of North East in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, the festival shall be screening eight documentaries on arts, music, including Western Classical, and couple of films focusing on culture of Northeast India, states a press release.
Meghalaya is hosting the second leg of the festival which will be touring the eight states of the Northeast after being inaugurated in Jorhat on February 10.
The festival is aimed at sensitizing the youth, especially the students, on works of art and culture that have made human civilization richer.
The films shall be followed by a discussion with invited experts from various fields. The opening film is Brush with Life focusing on the versatile artist Satish Gujral.
Among other films to be screened at the festival are on German composers Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann, Indian paintings, Wangala Festival and a martial art of Manipur, et al.
