Hyderabad, Mar 5 (UNI) To mark the International Women’s Day, a Women’s Film Festival will be organised at National Film Archive of India (NFAI) from March 9 to 11.

The festival will be organised jointly by NFAI, Aashay Film Club and the AAYAM Group of women in media, a statement here said on Monday.

This will be the 9th edition of the festival. The theme of this year’s edition is Travelling Women. The festival will be inaugurated at 1630 hours on March 9. At the ceremony, the AAYAM group will felicitate travel blogger Ritu Harish Goyal for her evocative writings on the subject of travel. The festival will open with Sidney Pollack’s Out Of Africa, featuring Meryl Streep.

On March 10 at 1800 hours, the festival will screen the Balu Mahendra’s Tamil film Moondram Pirai, in remembrance of actress Sridevi. The film features Kamal Haasan and Sridevi in what is regarded as one of her best performances, as a woman suffering from retrograde amnesia. It was later remade into Hindi as Sadma.

The festival will feature other acclaimed films including Away We Go, Under the Tuscan Sun, and Wild. The closing film is Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts. Before the closing film, ZelamChaubalof Kesari Tours and Shubhada Joshi of Girikand Travels will share their travelling experiences.

On March 8, NFAI will also host a special event “Parikathetil Rajkumari”, and screen audiovisual clips paying tribute to women in Indian cinema, from the birth of Indian cinema till the 1960s. The event will feature commentary by film expert Sulabha Ternikar, along with Vandana Kulkarni and Usman Shaikh.

All films will be screened with English subtitles, the statement added.

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