Special ode to Ahmedabad’s heritage at NID film festival

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The week-long film festival will showcase more than 50 animation films made by the students. This year, the central theme of the festival is “Africa-Asia”.

“We will also revisit a session from the film festival’s 2009 edition on ‘Cities & Stories’ in the context of the heritage city status to Ahmedabad,” festival director Sekhar Mukherjee said.

World Heritage Festival from Aug 1

Ahmedabad will organise a grand festival from August 1 to celebrate the World Heritage City tag that it received earlier this month. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will spend Rs 10 crore for the festival.

The 15-day festival, named World Heritage City Festival, will start with a heritage walk on August 1, wherein all elected office-bearers of the state government and municipal corporation will take part. A cultural event will also be held the same day at Bhadra Square at Lal Darwaza.

Besides lighting up the monuments, the AMC will organise a quiz contest, a painting competition and a mobile film contest. Souvenirs and mementos, based on heritage theme, will be showcased at the festival besides a tableau on heritage theme.

A documentary film on city’s heritage will also be shown at the festival.