The Yashwant International Film festival begins today in Mumbai. The Festival which will be held at Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan’s main auditorium and the Rangswar theatre at Nariman Point, will be jointly organized by the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Mumbai and the Pune Film Foundation with the support of Government of Maharashtra.

Zhang Lu’s ‘Dooman River’ which recently won the Best International Film at the Pune International Film Festival, will open the first edition of this festival on January 20. ‘Babu Band Baaja’, which won the Best Marathi Film Award in 9th Pune International Film Festival will be the closing film of the festival on 26th January 2011.

The festival will showcase competition films from the recently concluded Pune International Film Festival in the following sections: The World Cinema competition, Marathi Cinema competition, Student Film competition and Short films competition done jointly by Pune and Goa International Film Festival Fest.

A workshop on topic “Choose Your Format: Film or Digital” by Ujjwal Nirgudkar will be conducted during the festival.