BIFFes 2024: When and where to watch Rakshit Shetty productions Mithya and Abracadabra

Film screenings at the 15th Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes) begin today, March 1, with most of them spread across the 11 screens at the PVR Cinemas, Orion Mall in Bengaluru, and a select few each at the Rajkumar Bhavan in Chamarajpet and the Suchitra Society in Banashankari. The full schedule of screenings is available on the BIFFes official website.

This edition of the festival has a wide array of Kannada films, both commercial and art-house. Rakshit Shetty’s Paramvah Studios has two films at the festival – Mithya and Abracadabra – with the latter premiering at BIFFes.

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Director Sumanth Bhat’s Mithya, which premiered late last year at MAMI in Mumbai, has 2 screenings at BIFFES, the first being at 6 pm on March 1 at the Rajkumar Bhavan in Chamarajpet. The second screening is on March 3 at 5.20 pm at Audi 8 at PVR Cinemas Orion Mall. Mithya is an exploration of grief and loss from the perspective of an 11-year-old boy, as he deals with the loss of his parents.

Shishir Rajmohan’s Abracadabra’s first screening is on March 2 at Audi 9 at 2.30 pm, followed by a second on March 6 at the Rajkumar Bhavan in Chamarajpet on March 6 at 6 pm. Anant Nag and Siri Ravikumar are in Shishir’s Abracadabra, which is about human emotions, told through the lives of four central characters, a widower, a magician, and two youngsters – a man and a woman.

Delegate registration has closed and while this edition will have day passes available for those who’d like to make it only on select days, BIFFes officials say this will be opened only from Monday, so the first weekend will be delegates only.

Mithya and Abracadabra are a part of Paramvah Studios’ lineup of art-house cinema through which Rakshit Shetty is introducing a bunch of talented filmmakers to Kannada cinema. During the promotions of Sapta Sagaradaache Ello, the actor-filmmaker had explained his logic in backing cinema that may not seem financially viable, saying that the primary purpose of Paramvah Studios was to enable filmmakers to tell stories that come from their heart.