NEW DELHI: Taare Zameen Par, A Wednesday, Summer of 2007, Jodha Akbar and the award-winning Kannada film Gulabi Talkies will be part of the 26 features to be screened in the Indian Panaroma, which is part of the Delhi International Arts Festival (DIAF).

The Indian Panorama, which opened with the screening of Little Zizou (Gujarati- Hindi-English) by Sooni Taraporevala, has been organised by the DIAF in association with the Directorate of Film Festivals.

The Malayalam films that are to be screened during the featival are Priyanandan Pulijanmam, T V Chandran's Vilapangalkkappuram, Jayaraj's Gulmohar, M G Sasi's Atayalangal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan's Oru Pennum Randaanum, Manu S Kumaran's Aakashagopuram and Mohanan's Katha Parayumpol.

Apart from Mahasatta by Ramesh Laxman More, the other Marathi films are Dohaa by Pushkaraj Paranjape and Valu by Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni.

The other films that will be showcased at the festival are Yarwng by Joseph Pulinthanath, Bengali Chaturanga by Suman Mukhopadhyay, the Assamese Mon Jai by M.Maniram and Mee Sreyobhilashi by V Eshwar Reddy.

The festival will continue with the Twilight Competitive Film Festival of student and professional films ending on 15 December, organised by the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts and Communication.

Twilight comprises two separate competition sections for student filmmakers with 36 films and professional filmmakers with 20 films. These films will be short features of up to 20 minutes duration or non-features of up to 30 minutes duration.

The jury for the professional filmmakers is headed by Mani Kaul, Madan Gopal Singh and Gargi Sen while the students' jury has Namrata Joshi, Reena Mohan and Amit Sengupta.

The awards for Twilight will be given as follows:

STUDENT CATEGORY

Best Film
Best Director (fiction/animation/documentary)
Best Screenplay (fiction/animation)
Best Script (documentary)
Best Camerawork
Best Sound
Best Editing
Best Animation

PROFESSIONAL CATEGORY

Best Film
Best Film (Critics' Choice)
Best Screenplay (fiction/animation)
Best Script (documentary)

This will be followed by a three-day Children's Film Festival from 22 December.