National award-winning actor Irrfan Khan opened the 5th Jagran Film Festival here.
The opening ceremony of the seven-day festival, which began with the Indian premiere of the Austrian film 'The Woods Are Still Green', was also attended by the movie's lead actor Michael Kristof, actress Neetu Chandra, veteran script writer-director Vinod Pandey, screenplay writer Sanjay Masoom among others.
Kristof introduced his film, which is set during the World War I. The festival is dedicated to world peace and features a notable selection of classic as well as contemporary cinema from all over the world.
The opening day featured Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic 'Gandhi' as a tribute to the director who passed away in August this year besides actress Priyanka Chopra's sports biopic 'Mary Kom', based on the life of Olympic winning boxer..
The lineup for the opening day also included Asian premiere of Jack Zagha Kababie's Spanish film 'One For the Road', followed by Mrityunjaya Devvrat's Hindi film 'Children of War' and Tomislav Mrsic's 'Cowboys'.
