The 8th Jagran Film Festival is organized in 16 cities of India namely, Delhi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Dehradun, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhopal, Indore, Hisar, Ludhiana, Meerut, Raipur, and Mumbai. This edition of the festival will showcase 185 films from all around the world. The festival is an initiative of Jagran Prakashan Group, a publishing house listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India, aimed at promoting the appreciation of the cinematic art beyond the major metropolitan cities of India to smaller towns. The 8th Jagran Film Festival was held from July 1 to September 24, 2017. The first edition of Jagran Film Festival was held in the year 2010.
Jury
Indian showcase jury
The following people were on the jury for the Indian Features section:
Sudhir Mishra, director and screenwriter
Divya Dutta, Indian Actress
Sunny Joseph, director and cinematographer
Sankalp Meshram, director, producer, writer and editor
Harmeet Singh, music director
Jagran shorts jury
The following people were on the jury for Jagran shorts section:
Barry John, Indian theatre director and teacher
Makarand Deshpande, actor, writer and director
Aarti Chhabria, Indian actress
Cinema Of The Sellers jury
The following people were on the jury for Cinema of the Sellers section: Sonal Dabral, scriptwriter, chairman and CCO of DDB Mudra Group (India) Kailash Surendranath, director and co-founder of Kailash Picture Company Raj Nair, writer, CEO and CCO of Madison BMB Nima DT Namchu, CCO of Havas Worldwide (India) Prasoon Pandey, director and co-founder of Corcoise Films
International jury
The following people were on the jury for International Features section: Rahul Rawail, film director Rauf Ahmed, Journalist, film critic and author Jainardhan Sathyan, film director, producer and editor
Official selections
Indian Showcase
This section is dedicated to the Indian Feature Films from all the regions of the country. The following films are under the Indian Feature section: A Billion Color Story by P.Narasimhamurthy Allama by T.S. Nagabharana Amaraavati by B M Giriraj Anaarkali of Aarah by Avinash Das Angamaly Diaries by Lijo Jose Pellissery Bareilly Ki Barfi by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Charandas Chor by Shyam Maheshwari Doctor Rakhmabai by Anant Mahadevan Hindi Medium by Saket Chaudhary Jolly LLB 2 by Subhash Kapoor Kaabil by Sanjay Gupta Kaatru Veliyidai by Mani Ratnam Martin by Jeetendra Shikerkar Messi by Riingo Banerjee Mukti Bhawan by Shubhashish Bhutiani Phillauri by Anshai Lal Pink by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury Posto by Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Nandita Roy Raees by Rahul Dholakia Rama Rama Re by D. Sathyaprakash Shaanu-The Optimist by K. N. T. Sastry Shivaay by Ajay Devgn Sonata by Aparna Sen Super Singh by Anurag Singh The Ghazi Attack by Sankalp Toilet: Ek Prem Katha by Shree Narayan Singh Trapped by Vikramaditya Motwane
World Panorama
This section is dedicated to Foreign Feature Films. It includes feature films from different countries. The following films are under World Panorama section: Blue Silence by Bülent Öztürk Corporate by Nicolas Silhol Dark Blue Girl by Mascha Schilinski Pretty Far From Okay (Einmal Bitte Alles) by Helena Hufnagel The Alley (El Callejόn) by Caro Duarte Back to 97 (Em 97 Era Assim) by Zeca Brito Inner Court (Foro ĺntimo) by Ricardo Mehedff Golden Five by Goran Trenchovski Point Of View (‘Im Auge Des Betrachters’) by Otwin Karl Biernat The Desert Bride(La Novia Del Desierto) by Cecilia Atán Last Christmas by Christiano Pahler The Red Lands (Le Terre Rosse) by Giovanni Brancale Napoli Underground by Salvatore Polizzi Purple Horizons by Olgun Ӧzdemir Side B by David Yánez Still Summer by Yoon Hyung Chul The Black Prince by Kavi Raz Wood For The Trees (Vor Lauter Bäumen) by Pablo Callisaya Rage (Wściekłość) by Michał Węgrzyn
Special Screening
The following films are under the Special Screening section: Antareen by Monjul Baruah Eh Janam Tumhare Lekhe by Harjit Singh Gurgaon by Shanker Raman Moh Maya Money by Munish Bhardwaj Naam Shabana by Shivam Nair Tope (The Bait) by Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Homage
The 8th edition of Jagran film festival pays homage to some of the veteran actors by screening their popular films. The following films were screened under the Homage section: "Vinod Khanna"- Achanak by Gulzar "Om Puri"- Dharavi by Sudhir Mishra "Reema Lagoo"- Rui Ka Bojh by Subhash Agarwal "Jeanne Moreau"- Jules Et Jim by François Truffaut