Patna Film Festival
patna film festival international film festival patna india participant country include iran canada china japan sweden germany russia united state india patna film festival started jointly organised ministry information broadcasting national film development corporation nfdc directorate film festival national film archive india federation film society india state government first patna film festival held week february mona cinema hall patnashekhar kapoor sudhir mishra aziz mirza shatrughan sinha shekhar suman manoj bajpai prakash jha among attendee total film india iran canada china screened bengali marathi malayalam language hazaaron khwaishein aisi inaugural film second event held february foreign segment festival one movie french german italian japanese swedish language third festival held week april regent theater participant country japan sweden germany russia united state india taare zameen par inaugural film bhojpuri kannada marathi telugu language film also part festival organizer renamed patna international film festival piff launched prefestival campaign march several district bihar campaign started patna screening child war based bangladesh war popular actor like raima sen riddhi sen pawan malhotra well director mritunjay devavrat present piff organized cineyatra commenced bameti auditorium april based theme ganga gandhi aur balidana first kind state decided host festival april mahatma gandhi visited patna april launching chamapran satyagraha prior gandhi held several meeting across state theme aimed commemorate visit fifteen feature film screened including six sri lanka documentary short film shown altogether seven country including sri lanka australia indonesia japan china nepal malaysia piff concluded bank ganga patna college sri lanka granted special guest status festival country utsav desh tag bihar sri lanka share common bond especially buddhism spread bihar island sri lankans visit bodh gaya seat buddha enlightenment festival logo included sri lankan flag say raviraj patel festival divided four segment bharatiyam vishwachaya bihar cinema samkatha guest film maker piff vimukte jay sundare sri lanka dhanushka sri lanka bijaya jena sanjivan lal karan baali shubhadra chaudhary sudhir palsane dilip patnayak joshi joshef kapilash bhuinyan susant misra festival organized bihar state film development finance corporation limited art culture youth department government bihar guest film personality included seema kapoor lenin rajendran uthara unni pawan malhotra sandeep sawant paresh mokashi nandu madhav sabyasachi mohapatra atal bihari panda susant misra dilip patnayak ramkumar singh gajendra sarotriya festival coordinated curated raviraj patel youth filmmaker writer bihar cinema bihar