MUMBAI: Sundance Institute has renewed its program-Film Forward: Advancing Cultural Dialogue initiative that was introduced last year.

Film Forward connects contemporary US and international films and filmmakers with diverse global audiences and features documentary and narrative films.

The films selected for the second year of the Film Forward program are: Another Earth, by Mike Cahill; Beginners, by Mike Mills; Bran Nue Dae, by Rachel Perkins; Buck, by Cindy Meehl;Grbavica, by Jasmila Zbanic; The Green Wave, by Ali Samadi Ahadi; On The Ice, by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean; Senna, by Asif Kapadia; Somewhere Between, by Linda Goldstein Knowlton; and Unfinished Spaces, by Benjamin Murray and Alysa Nahmias.

The program with travel to India apart from China, Morocco, Columbia and France this year. Film Forward filmmakers will travel with the initiative to present their work and participate in master classes, discussion panels among other engagements with audiences.

Last year, more than 1,18,000 people attended 116 presentations while more than 30 workshops and panels worldwide were conducted by Film Forward‘s filmmakers and other film professionals.