France, Dec. 3 -- A row has broken out in India over"The Kashmir Files", a polarising feature that ajudge at the International Film Festival of India accused of stoking hatred.

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, who served as jury chairman at the 53thedition of the event, said he was "disturbed" by the inclusion of "The Kashmir Files" in the festival in the southern state of Goa.

"It seemed to us like propaganda, a vulgar movie, inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival," he said of the film, which depicts the 1990s exodus of 400,000 Hindus from Kashmir.

"We were all of usshocked and disturbed," Lapid added at the concluding ceremony of the week-long festival in Goa, which is governed by India's ...