Filmmaker Hansel Mehta's Shahid will open the first Dharamshala International Film Festival that is due to go underway on 1 November. Ashim Ahluwalia's award-winning film <em>Miss Lovely</em> will be the closing film of the festival that will feature other 26 feature films, documentaries and short films. The four-day festival, the first being organised in Dharamshala by Ritu Sarin and Tenzin Sonam, promises to showcase the best of recent Indian and world cinema, both in fiction and documentary.