Bhubaneswar: Odia feature film Adieu GODARD won the best film award in the Indian Language’s Competition at the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), which concluded on May 1.
The film is an India, France co-production. It has been produced by Swastik Arthouse in collaboration with FilmStop Entertainment and Les Films de la Haute-Vallée.
Shot exquisitely in Odisha, the film is a socio-cultural comic tribute to the legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. Choudhury Bikash Das plays the central character around whom the film revolves. Dipanwit Dashmohapatra, Sudhasri Madhusmita, Swastik Choudhury, Choudhury Jayaprakash Das, Shankar Basu Mallick, Abhishek Giri, Swetapadma Satpathy and Dr Banikanta Mishra plays other important characters in the film. The music has been composed by Kisaloy Roy. Rupam Islam has rendered his first Odia song in this film.
This is the fifth award for the film at an international film festival. Adieu Godard will next travel to London for its UK Premiere at the UK Asian Film Festival later this month where it will be screened at BFI Southbank and at the British Library. It will then travels to Stuttgart, for the German Premiere at the Indian Film Festival of Stuttgart next month.
