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56th IFFI WILL CELEBRATE FILMMAKERS, NEW TALENT in CINEMA

Uncategorized November 14, 2025 , by

By Tara Narayan

ITHIS will be the 56th International Film Festival of India, the 21st in Goa, and it does look like everybody is happy with Goa as a permanent venue even if the state can’t boast of a single film city yet! This year’s IFFI is getting set to roll out the red carpet from world cinema and its icons old and new from November 20 to 28, 2025 in capital city Panjim although the venues for film screening will scattered as is the usual case.
Over 21 years IFFI has certainly undergone many changes from the easy booking of tickets to see the films scheduled for the week, to today’s elaborately set into place digital booking platforms. You may say IFFI has arrived into the digital age and become younger in the process with the IFFI-goers being large groups of students of cinema, registering for the various classes organized during the duration of the festival (not to mention the popular Master classes in film making and appreciation yesterday, today and tomorrow.
IFFI is also a growing marketplace for films to be bought and sold by the stakeholders for India is the largest producer of films and enjoys a considerable reputation as a cinema-centered country with a formidable history in filmmaking. All this bubbles up every IFFI naturally with Goa now boasting of a filmmaking fraternity which is winning awards and being noticed at other international film festivals.
According to a PIB press release IFFI-2025 is gearing up to lay out an extravaganza of 240 films from 81 countries, with 13 world premieres, 4 international premiers and 46 Asian premieres. The festival has received a record 2,314 submissions from 127 countries and thus, underscoring IFFI’s growing prominence on the global festival circuit.
What is most appealing at this year’s forthcoming IFFI is the country of focus is Japan and there’s the promise of a specially curated package of films, covering “intimate dramas of memory and identity to festival-winning psychological thrillers, queer narratives, youth sci-fi, and poetic, non-linear experiments.” The festival will open this year with “The Blue Trail” by Gabriel Mascaro, a Berlinale 2025 Silver Bear winner recounting the story of a 77-year-old Teresa who goes on a daring journey through the Amazon. Indian Panorama 2025 will see 25 feature films, 20 non-feature films and 5 debut feature films with the opening film being “Amaran” (Tamil) directed by Rajkumar Periyasamy; opening non-feature film is “Kakori.”
Other highlights: The felicitation of legendary actor Rajinikanth who completes 50 years in cinema at the IFFI closing ceremony; all this and much more including a section devoted to women in cinema, 50 plus films directed by women. There is a special film package from partner country Spain (mid-fest film is “Sirat” by Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe, the film is about a father’s search for his missing daughter across the Moroccan desert, a “poetic journey of faith, loss and redemption” and there’s a spotlight on Australia. All in all the 56th International Film Festival of India returns to Goa anew from November 20 to 28, 2025 to unite filmmakers, dreamers and story tellers from the world over. You can say IFFI this year will truly embrace the future with India’s first AI film festival. There’s nothing left to say except welcome IFFI one more time in Goa!

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