9th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2017

9th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2017
Location	Bengaluru, Karnataka India
Founded	2006
Awards	Special Jury Award ()
No. of films	240 films
Festival date	2–9 February 2017
Website	Official website
Bengaluru International Film Festival chronology
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9th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2017 (BIFFES 2017) was inaugurated by former Chief Minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah on 2 February 2017 in Bengaluru.^[1] A total of 240 films from 60 countries including Oscar nominees of the year such as The Salesman by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and A Man Called Ove by Swedish director Hannes Holm were screened^[2] from 2 February to 9 February 2017.^[3]

Asian cinema competition

Film name	Director	Language	Country	Winner	References
A Father's Will	Bakyt Mukul, Dastan Zhapar Uulu	Kyrgyz	Kyrgyzstan	Best film - A Father's Will	^[4]
A House on 41st Street	Hamid Ghorbani, Hamid Reza Ghorbani	Persian	Iran
By the Time It Gets Dark	Anocha Suwichakornpong	Thai	Thailand
Destiny	Zhang Wei	Chinese	China
Four Chinese Poems	Cui Ren	Mandarin	China
Land of the Little People	Yaniv Berman	Hebrew	Israel
Letters from Prague	Angga Dwimas Sasongko	Indonesian	Indonesia
Light Arose	Chathra Weeraman, Baratha Gihan Hettiarachchi	Sinhala	Sri Lanka
Lost Daughter	Jacob Chen	Mandarin	Taiwan
Red Butterfly Dream	Priyantha Kaluarachchi	Tamil	Sri Lanka
The Narrow Path	Satish Babusenan	Malayalam	India
The Road to Mandalay	Midi Z	Mandarin	Taiwan
U Turn	Pawan Kumar	Kannada	India
Wihite Blessing	Sengedorg Chanchivdorg	Mongolian	Mongolia

Film name	Director	Language	Winner	References
Chronicles Of Hari	Ananya Kasaravalli	Kannada	Best film - Chronicles Of Hari	^[5]
K Sera Sera	Rajeev Shinde	Konkani
Lady Of The Lake	Haobam Paban Kumar	Manipuri
Lathe Joshi	Mangesh Joshi	Marathi
Maj Rati Keteki	Santwana Bordoloi	Assamese
Revelations	Vijay Jayapal	Tamil
Search for the Self	G. Prabha	Sanskrit
The Golden Wing	Bobby Sarma Baruah	Rajbangshi
Kalichaat	Sudhanshu Sharma	Hindi
Chitrokar	Saibal Mitra	Bengali
Ekk Albela	Shekhar Sartandel	Marathi
Kaasav	Sumitra Bhave	Marathi
Kaadu Pookkunna Neram	Dr. Biju	Malayalam

Film name	Director	Winner	References
6/3	R Mahantesh	Best film - Rama Rama Re...	^[4]
Actor	Dayal Padmanabhan
Kandhaa	Solomon K George
Kahi	Arvind Sastry
Dhvani	Sebastin David
Rama Rama Re...	D. Satya Prakash
Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu	Sumana Kittur
Uppina Kagada	B. Suresha
Alemariya Aatmakathe	Amaradeva
Bekku	Baragur Ramachandrappa
Pallata	Raghu S P
Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu	Hemanth M. Rao

Award	Film	Result	References
Popular Kannada Cinema	Kotigobba 2	1st	^[4]
	Jaggu Dada	2nd
	Doddmane Hudga	3rd

Film name	Director	Producer	Country	Language	References
Kaadu Pookkunna Neram	Dr. Biju	Sophia Paul	India	Malayalam	^[4]

Film name	Director	Producer	Country	Language	References
Lady of the Lake	Haoban Paban Kumar	Oli Pictures	India	Manipuri	^[4]

Film name	Director	Producer	Country	Language	References
Uppina Kagada	B. Suresha	Shylaja Nag, B. Suresha	India	Kannada	^[5]

Film name	Director	Producer	Country	Language	References
Lathe Joshi	Mangesh Joshi	Amol Kagne, Sonali Joshi	India	Marathi	^[5]

^ "Curtains up on ninth edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival". The New Indian Express. 3 February 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ "Oscar nominees among 240 films to be screened during Biffes". The Hindu. 27 January 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ "9th Bengaluru Int'l Film Festival to begin on February 2". Deccan Herald. 28 December 2016. Archived from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Film award winners at 9th BIFFES". The Times of India. 9 February 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Weeklong Biffes ends with a bang at City of Palaces". Deccan Herald. 10 February 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 16 February 2022.