Verite Film Festival (Kashmir)

[1] Its first edition (2011) was organized by Parallel Post – an e-magazine in collaboration with Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST), Awantipora and was held annually thereafter.

The festival is aimed to explore the budding talent among the students in the field of film making.

In this year 22 films directed by young artists were screened dealing with various ‘hard-hitting and pressing issues’.

[2] Most of the films screened in the festival were about Kashmir Conflict [3] and its various facets of presentation, livelihood issues, loss of tradition and heritage, drug abuse etc.

A short animated movie ‘Hopscotch’ by cartoonist Malik Sajad revealed the story of divided Kashmir.