MUMBAI: Mangesh Hadawale‘s Dekh Indian Circus will open the ninth Indian Film Festival in Stuttgart, Germany on 18 July.

The film, starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Virendra Singh Rathod, and Suhani Oza, provides a metaphor for rural India‘s struggle to access the economic miracles of East Asian nations.

Some of the other films to be screened at the festival are Shala by Sujay Dahake, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara by Zoya Akhtar, Teri Meri Kahaani by Kunal Kohli, Adaminte Makan Abu by Salim Ahamed, At the Stairs by Rajesh Jala, Deool by Umesh Kulkarni, Gattu by Rajan Khosa and Tigmanshu Dhulia‘s Paan Singh Tomar.

The festival will be held from 18 to 22 July.