MUMBAI: Filmmaker Prashant Bhargava’s feature film Patang (The Kite) has been selected to be screened as part of the 41st Forum in this year’s Berlin Film Festival.

A co-production between India and USA, the film is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.

The Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and six films as special screenings of which 24 films would have their world premieres. 

The Forum is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale that presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.

In addition, eight films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru.

The Berlin Film Festival will take place from 10 to 20 February.