New Delhi, Sep 22 - The 11th biennial Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short and Animation films 2010 will have three new features - students films/videos, mobile films and puppet animation films.

Organised by the information and broadcasting ministry, the gala event will be held Feb 3-9 next year at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Nariman Point, Mumbai.

'We have merged national and international contributions this time, as the quantity (of documentaries) has improved manifold. So, we thought Indian films should also be at par with the international entries,' Kuldeep Sinha, director of MIFF, told reporters here.

'We are also going to have a new section of student films in the competitive section, which will feature around 35 hours of films. We have opened the festival for mobile film screenings too this time, irrespective of film lengths on an experiment basis,' added Sinha at the Films Division Auditorium.

The fest will also see another new feature.

'We always had an animation section but this time we thought of having a deviation and screen puppet animation films.