festival trailer 2022
Thanks to Luca for this beautiful trailer to our Auroville Film Festival 2022. Music by Dhani. Mastering by Stefano.
last day to submit
Today is the last day to submit your film to the international category of “films that develop the theme of human unity” of the Auroville Film Festival 2024. The deadline for submission is July 31, 2023. Submissions need to be made through FilmFreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/AurovilleFilmFestival
submissions for 2024 are open now!
The 8th edition of the Auroville Film Festival will take place in January 2024. We are now open for submissions. Entries for the international category of “Films that develop the theme of human unity” are to be submitted via FilmFreeway. Films for the three local categories “Films made by Aurovilians, bioregion residents or guests of...
award winning films will be screened at Cinema Paradiso
We are happy to announce that all award winning films of the 7th Auroville Film Festival 2022 will be screened at Cinema Paradiso in Auroville over the next weeks: Thursday, 10 February, 8.00 pm 48 Athisayam (Lockdown) – Specical Motivation Award En Udambu (My Body) – Jury Award Pre-Monsoon – Mongbra Award Thursday, 17 February,...
awards photos and videos
Award Winners of the 7th Auroville Film Festival 2022. Watch videos with the two juries announcing the awards in the respective categories as well as short award acceptance video messages by the winning filmmakers below:
award winners 2022
Congratulations to the award winners of the Auroville Film Festival 2022! International category of “films that develop the theme of human unity”: Wisdom Award A Letter From India by Naveed Mulki & Shaktiraj Singh Jadeja A small diverse village of 30000 in southwest India demonstrates its ability to live a harmonious existence. The film is...
THANK YOU!
MMC/CP and AVFF would like to THANK the following groups and people who each contributed importantly to the event. We very much hope to be able to schedule the festival after lockdown restrictions are lifted. We were really happy that we were able to organise the online film festival platform with the support of Shift72,...
featured on Cinestaan
Dear Cinestaan editors, thank you very much for this feature on your platform! https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2022/jan/21/32965/auroville-film-festival-showcasing-over-70-films-online
mid-term statistics
Thank you! to our 972 viewers after the first three days of our festival. This is an overwhelming response. You can still “buy” films for free on https://auroville.shift72.com until Sunday, January 23. Once “bought”, you have time until February 8 to watch them.
Filmmakers Speak videos
watch short introductions / interviews / Q&As with participating filmmakers here: Keep checking back as more recordings will be added as they become available!
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
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
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
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...
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...
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...
