Kolkata Film Festival will be inaugurated today, Amitabh will arrive in the Film Festival

The 28th edition of the world-famous Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) will be inaugurated on Thursday. Around 183 films including 52 short and documentaries from 42 countries will be screened at ten venues in this film festival which will run till December 22. The opening ceremony will be held at the Netaji Indoor Stadium in which Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan along with Shahrukh Khan will also participate. Governor CV Anand Bose and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will also be present in the programme. Bachchan's film Abhiman, directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, will be screened first at KIFF.

Other directors to be honored at KIFF include Asit Sen and Tarun Majumdar. Noted director Sudhir Mishra, known for his style of realistic films, will deliver the prestigious Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture, which has been an integral part of KIFF since its inception, this year's theme is 'Understanding Cinema in the Changing Times of OTT'. There is a lot of discussion about OTT at the moment and this medium has become very popular in recent times.

KIFF president Raj Chakraborty, well-known directors from the Bengali film industry, state cultural affairs minister Indranil Sen and superstar Prosenjit Chatterjee were present at Saturday's press conference. The venues where the films will be screened include Cinema Shatabdi Bhawan, Rabindra Sadan, Nandan 1, 2 and 3, Shishir Manch, Rabindra Okakura Bhawan and Nazrul Teerth.