The 9th Jagran Film Festival that aims to connect great cinema with nationwide audiences, conducted a pre-festival screening of films from International and Indian short competition, that was showcased at the Jagran Film Festival, at DT Cinemas, Saket on Saturday. Festival Director, Mayank Shekhar, commenced the event talking about the 9th edition of Jagran Film Festival, sharing festival highlights and movies to look out for at the festival that will commence from 29th June'18 onwards at Siri Fort.

As part of the pre-festival screening, Hung Yi Wu's On The Waitlist from Taiwan, Naomi van Niekerk's My Mum's Bonkers from South Africa, Kala / Fish from Estonia and Heimat from Poland were screened as part of films from International shorts competition. The Caregiver, Maya, Humming Bird and Counterfeit Kunkoo were screened from films from the Indian Shorts competition.

This year, JFF received nearly 3500 submissions across genres from 100 countries. The curated program will showcase over 200 films. The competition segment will include International and Indian Features, Shorts, Indian Documentaries and Student Films. The non-competitive segment will include Thematic Specials, a Retrospective, Tributes, India Showcase, World Panorama and Hot Shorts.