MUMBAI: A few award-winning films from the Cannes Critics week and the National Film Awards spanning the last 50 years are to be screened at the 13th Mumbai Film Festival.

The organisers of the Film Festival have created a special section to celebrate 50 years of Cannes Critics week along with National Award winning debut features.

A few of the international classics that are to be screened in this section include Valeria Gaii Guermanika‘s Everybody Dies But Me, Ken Loach‘s Kes, Jerzy Skolimowski‘s Walkover amongst others. The films that have won the Indian National Film Awards including Adoor Gopalakirshnan‘s Swayamvaram, Shyam Benegal‘s Ankur‘ and Girish Kasaravalli‘s Ghatasraddha will also be screened.
 
Mumbai Film Festival, Director Srinivasan Naryanan said, "By juxtaposing the Cannes Critics Week award winning films along with the Indian debut features which won National Film Awards, we are trying to create an analytical study of the films that have created trends abroad and in India, the narrative structure and the technical aspects which went into the making of these path breaking films."

The Mumbai Film Festival has also decided to invite the directors of the selected films. "We will be inviting the filmmakers. It will be a treat for cinema connoisseurs to be able to interact with these cinema legends. We are only happy to be paying tribute to these masters," observed Narayanan.