AbilityFEST 2025 to conclude on Thursday
The winners of '60 Seconds to Fame!' an all-India one-minute film competition on disability held by the Ability Foundation will be awarded on Thursday. The one minute film competition aimed to encourage people to think creatively about disability in just one minute. The theme this year was 'Through your lens: A celebration of disability inclusion'. The winning entries from '60 Seconds to Fame! will be screened, followed by a session with festival chairperson Revathy, R.S. Prasanna, director of Sitaare Zameen Par, Divy Nidhi Sharma, writer of Sitaare Zameen Par with the basketball athletes featured in the film.
The film festival also featured the screening of the Tamil film Tourist Family with audio description for the blind, alongside Hindi film Ahaan. International titles at the fest include films from Italy, the Netherlands, Mongolia, the U.K., Iran, the U.S., and Poland.
On Wednesday, a discussion with Revathy with the director of Ahaan, Nikhil Pherwani was also held.
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