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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian film festival in 1979}}<br />
{{Infobox film awards<br />
| number =7<br />
| award = International Film Festival of India<br />
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| awarded_for = Best of World cinema<br />
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| presenting_org = [[Directorate of Film Festivals]]<br />
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| presented_date = 1979<br />
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| website = {{URL|http://www.iffigoa.org/}}<br />
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| best_feature = "[[Hungarian Rhapsody (1979 film)|Hungarian Rhapsody]]"<br />
| last = 6th<br />
| next = 8th<br />
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The '''7th [[International Film Festival of India]]''' was held from 3–17 January 1979 in [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm7IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=7IIFA.pdf |title=Directorate of Film Festival |access-date=11 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112042443/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm7IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=7IIFA.pdf |archive-date=12 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The festival opened with "[[Junoon (1978 film)|Junoon]]" by [[Shyam Benegal]] in the out of Competition world premiere. The festival was the only competitive and exclusive international film festival organised in the entire Third World during 1978–79. For the first time in the history of the Indian Competitive film festivals, the Jury was headed by a foreigner, Qusmane Sembene of Senegal. There were two women on the jury (Chantal Akerman – Belgium, and Marta Maszaves – Hungary) for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rrtd.nic.in/iffi-2002.htm|title=International Film Festival in India|website=rrtd.nic.in|access-date=31 March 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041121093039/http://rrtd.nic.in/iffi-2002.htm|archive-date=21 November 2004}}</ref><br />
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==Winners==<br />
*'''[[IFFI Best Film Award|Golden Peacock (Best Film)]]:''' "[[Hungarian Rhapsody (1979 film)|Hungarian Rhapsody]]" by [[Miklós Jancsó]] (Hungarian film)<br />
*'''[[IFFI_Best_Film_Award#Golden_Peacock_Award_winners_(Short_Films)|Golden Peacock (Best Short Film)]]''' "An Encounter with Faces" (India)<br>"Olympic Games" (Poland)<br />
*[[IFFI Best Actor Award (Male)]] (Silver Peacock) [[Shankar Nag]] for "[[Ondanondu Kaladalli]]"<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EKo-DwAAQBAJ&q=iffi+girish+karnad+1979&pg=PT157|title=Conscience of The Race|first=Bibekananda|last=Ray|date=5 April 2017|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|isbn=9788123026619|via=Google Books}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:1980 film festivals]]<br />
[[Category:International Film Festival of India|07]]<br />
[[Category:1980 in Indian cinema]]</div>Yeashrahman