MUMBAI: Dev Benegal's Road Movie will open the 60th Berlin International Film Festival that will open on 11 February and will go on till the 21st of the month.

The film presented by The Indian Film Company (TIFC) in association with Studio 18 has already received glowing public receptions in Toronto, Tokyo and Doha.

International Sales giant Fortissimo Films, is representing Road Movie, its first Hindi language title.

Remarks Indian Films Company CEO Sandeep Bhargava, "The film made for the international audience has been earlier appreciated at the several festivals it had attended. The dream to have it shown in a European film festival has been fulfilled with the film being selected to open the Berlin film festival."

Road, Movie follows Vishnu played by Abhay Deol, as a restless young man who rejects his father's faltering hair-oil business and hits the road with a Chevy travelling cinema in search of freedom.

Along the journey Vishnu ponders his life's priorities as he learns to appreciate his culture and the power of friendship and love.