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Stills from among the movies from this 12 months’s lineup for YIFF | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The entries will likely be evaluated by a panel that includes filmmakers Nicholas Eliopoulos and Marta Cunningham, acclaimed actor and singer Alison Fraser, and award-winning producer Mariana Méndez Alejandre.
This 12 months’s highlights embrace worldwide titles making their Indian and Asian premieres, like Caravan by Zuzana Kirchnerová, Têtes Brûlées by Maja Ajmia Zellama, I’ve Seen All I Need To See by Zeshaan Younus, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day by Ivona Juka and Aisha Can’t Fly by Morad Mostafa. 100 Sunset by Kusang Kyirong, Thinestra by Nathan Hertz, and Aurora by Raintolk and Andres Maimik will mark their Asian premieres.
Notably, the movie pageant will even have fun the most effective of Indian indie cinema, with titles similar to Secret of a Mountain Serpent by Nidhi Saxena, Chewing Gum by Abhay Sharma, and Kaisi Yeh Paheli by Ananyabrata Chakravorty.
In the documentary section, YIFF 2025 will display screen titles similar to Dalit Subbaiah – Voice of the Rebels by Gridaran MKP, Saints and Warriors by Patrick Shannon, Arushi Nigam’s Dream Factory, and Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste by Manjeet Sarkar and Mike Noone, amongst others.
In an announcement, Tushar Tyagi, Founder of the YIFF, mentioned, cinema is among the few artwork kinds that speaks a language everybody understands. “This 12 months’s lineup displays that perception and that movie has the facility to attach cultures, problem views, and remind us of our shared humanity,” he added.
Anshika Singh, Festival Director, mentioned, “We’ve curated a program rooted in benefit and inclusivity, spotlighting movies that hardly ever discover theatrical house attributable to their type, scale, language, or politics. Our objective is to create a democratic platform the place under-seen movies meet engaged audiences.”
YIFF 2025 will likely be held from November 13 to twenty, with PVR Dynamix, Juhu, serving as the principle screening venue, together with Gaysi, Veda Kunba, and Veda Blackbox. Masterclasses and discussions will likely be held throughout town.
Feature Film Selections
- Holy Rosita by Wannes Destoop (Belgium – Asian Premiere)
- Aurora by Rain Tolk, Andres Maimik (Estonia – Asian Premiere)
- Caravan by Zuzana Kirchnerová (France – Indian Premiere)
- A Mother, a Son, and a Murder by Ananyabrata Chakravorty (India – Asian Premiere)
- Thinestra by Nathan Hertz (United States – Asian Premiere)
- Chewing Gum by Abhay Sharma (India – Asian Premiere)
- Secret of a Mountain Serpent by Nidhi Saxena (India)
- I’ve Seen All I Need to See by Zeshaan Younus (United States – Indian Premiere)
- Sheness by Manuraj Dubey (India)
- 100 Sunset by Kunsang Kyirong (Canada – Asian Premiere)
- Têtes Brûlées by Maja Ajmia Zellama (Belgium – Indian Premiere)
- Aisha Can’t Fly Away by Morad Mostafa (Egypt – Indian Premiere)
- Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day by Ivona Junka (Croatia / Poland / Canada / Cyprus / Bosnia and Herzegovina – Indian Premiere)
- The Second Coming Act 1: The New for the Old by Jean Carlos Díaz Sepúlveda (Puerto Rico – Asian Premiere)
Feature Documentary Selections:
- My Missing Aunt — Juyeon Yang (Republic of Korea) — Indian Premiere
- Dalit Subbaiah – Voice of the Rebels — Gridaran MKP (India) — Indian Premiere
- Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste — Manjeet Sarkar, Mike Noone (India) — World Premiere
- Village of Bastards — Amritansh Shukla, Uday Thakur (India) — Asian Premiere
- Fear and Now — Liat Ron (United States) — Asian Premiere
- Trans and Pregnant — Ramon Te Wake (New Zealand)
- Saints and Warriors — Patrick Shannon (Canada) — Indian Premiere
- Negative Remorse — Shankar Goud (India)
- Dream Factory — Aarushi Nigam (India) — Asian Premiere
Published – October 28, 2025 01:08 pm IST
