Anushka Sharma to attend the screening of NH10 at Beijing International Film Festival

Anushka will be in Beijing on April 19 when NH10 will be presented at the festival, the Indian Embassy stated in a statement. M S Prakash Babu’s award-winning debut movie Fig Fruit and the Wasps will also be screened.

NH10, a 2015 crime thriller, is directed by Navdeep Singh and stars Anushka and Neil Bhoopalam in lead casts. Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will also attend and address the festival.

The eight-day festival to took place at Yanqi Lake on the outskirts of Beijing, where the APEC meetings were held last year, has attracted 930 movies from 90 countries and regions to face for its Tiantan Awards.

French director Luc Besson will be one of the the awards jury, including American writer-producer Robert Mark Kamen, South Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, Russia’s Fyodor Bondarchuk, Peter Chan from Hong Hong and Chinese actress Zhou Xun.

Jean-Jacques Annaud is also expected to attend the festival for directing China-France hit Wolf Totem.

The 10 Tiantan Awards cover awards for best feature, film, best director, best actor, best actress and best music.