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Daljeet officially opens AVFF 2022

Daljeet officially opens AVFF 2022

Daljeet Wadhwa, co-director of this year’s Auroville Film Festival officially opens the festival! Watch the films for free on https://auroville.shift72.com
music live streams

music live streams

This year the accompanying live concerts by Aurovilian musicians took place as live streams on this page. Recordings of each stream are still available below. The program: Tuesday, January 18, 18.30 – 20.00 IST: NoizeGate Wednesday, January 19, 18.30 – 20.00 IST: (Dusha cancelled) Last Minute Thursday, January 20, 18.30 – 20.00 IST: Bulletproof Funk...
award trophies 2022 by Rakhee

award trophies 2022 by Rakhee

Marco, the artistic director of the festival, introduces the award trophies, this year made by Aurovilian ceramic artist Rakhee Kane. And, as in all the previous editions, we have the MongBra challenge trophy, a brass sculpture made by Johnny depicting a Mongoose and a Cobra, which is being return to us in every next edition....
press release

press release

Auroville Film Festival 2022 January 18-23, 2022 The 2022 Auroville Film Festival will be an online edition. This allows us to continue enjoying great movies, while reaching the many people who cannot travel to Auroville during the pandemic. This year we feature films in two categories. The international category of films that develop the theme of...
festival trailer 2022

festival trailer 2022

Thanks to Luca for this beautiful trailer to our Auroville Film Festival 2022. Music by Dhani. Mastering by Stefano.
online only! live screenings cancelled!

online only! live screenings cancelled!

As per the latest instructions from Tamil Nadu police, we have to cancel all live screenings scheduled for next week’s event! The instruction has been issued following a rise in Covid cases. We really apologize that we are unable to do a physical festival screening, but we must follow these Covid restrictions. At the same...
online platform on Shift72

online platform on Shift72

The 7th edition of the Auroville Film Festival will take place as a hybrid festival with live audience screenings in Auroville as well as online screenings on the Shift72 platform: https://auroville.shift72.com/
2022 online platform on Shift72

2022 online platform on Shift72

The 7th edition of the Auroville Film Festival will take place as a hybrid festival with live audience screenings in Auroville as well as online screenings on the Shift72 platform: https://auroville.shift72.com/ Notes regarding the online platform: All films will be available to watch from January 18, 2022 onwards. All films are available for free (click...
Jury for Human Unity Films

Jury for Human Unity Films

Francis Neemberry In 2005, with my partner Doris, I started making videos under the name of Auroville Video Productions. For over thirteen years we made a number of documentaries on Auroville and large amount of interviews with Aurovilians about their experiences living in Auroville. Richa Hushing Alumna of Film and Television Institute of India, Richa...
Jury for Auroville Films

Jury for Auroville Films

Aanchal Kapur Aanchal Kapur has over thirty years of work experience as a gender and development trainer, documentation & communication specialist. She is the founder of Kriti: a development praxis and communication team, Kriti Film Club and Gestures. Since March 2020, she has been curating & organizing issue-based film festivals on Doculive. Premendra Mazumder Premendra...
AVFF 2022 - Human Unity Films

AVFF 2022 – Human Unity Films

Officially selected films of AVFF 2022 in the international category “Films that develop the theme of human unity” ARAMBH (THE BEGINNING) 2019, India, Hindi, 21min Screening: Tuesday 18th Jan, 21:37hrs – Cinema Paradiso Aarambh (The Beginning) tells a universal story about one of humanity’s fundamental questions: What happens after death? The question is asked by...
AVFF 2022 - Auroville Films

AVFF 2022 – Auroville Films

Officially selected films of AVFF 2022 in the category “Films made by Aurovilians, bioregion residents or guests of Auroville” A JOURNEY OF RESTORATION 2018, Documentary, 21min 49sec, English Screening on: Saturday 22nd January, 16:40hrs – SAIIER This film is a documentation of a project between RAMCO and Auroville Botanical Garden. See how a limestone quarry...
2022 poster

2022 poster

Thanks to Dominique and Marco here comes our poster for the 7th Auroville Film Festival 2022
submit your film to AVFF 2022

submit your film to AVFF 2022

*** E N T R I E S * C L O S E D *** Submit your film to the 7th edition of the Auroville Film Festival, which will take place January 18 – 23, 2022. Entries for the international category of “Films that develop the theme of human unity” are to be submitted...
partnership with European Union Film Festival in India

partnership with European Union Film Festival in India

We are pleased to announce our partnership with the 25th European Union Film Festival in India.  It will be held digitally from 5-30 November. Registrations are now open: http://festivalscope.com/signup.html Registration is free and users are able to watch all 42 films on Festival Scope. All the information: www.euffindia.com