India and Ukraine have agreed to strengthen the bilateral cooperation between the two countries through the medium of cinema.
The cooperation would be worked out through a policy and institutional framework to showcase films through the medium of Film Festivals and utilizing the Film Facilitation Office platform established by India.
The screening of films with subtitles was also discussed in order to reach out to people. These issues were discussed during a meeting in New Delhi on Monday.
The meeting took place between Mr. M. Venkaiah Naidu, Minister for Information & Broadcasting and Ukrainian delegation led by Mr. Iurii Artemenko, Member of the Parliament of Ukraine and Chairman of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine.
During the discussions, Mr. Naidu said that Ministry of Information & Broadcasting would extend all possible support to promote exchange programs between public broadcasters of the two countries, content creation, screening and distribution of films.
The possibility of translating programs and content and providing subtitles in respective languages of both the countries was also discussed with respect to the Public Broadcasters of both the countries.
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