
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
Thanks to Luca for this beautiful trailer to our Auroville Film Festival 2022. Music by Dhani. Mastering by Stefano.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thanks to Dominique and Marco here comes our poster for the 7th Auroville Film Festival 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
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

Watch online – World premiere “TALKING CHERNOBYL”: exploration after apocalypse
Auroville Art Service and Auroville Film Festival are partnering the screening of this film. TALKING CHERNOBYL: exploration after apocalypse- directed by Iara Lee (a Cultures Of Resistance film)this is a film that examines the underground culture of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where–three decades after the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster— illegal hiking adventurers aka “stalkers”,...

Two, yet one.
Like a big lunch, the 6th Auroville Film Festival ended leaving us all full, tired and with big smiles on our faces. But still, I’m not quite able to define it. Had I assisted a community festival or a film festival? Every person with whom I spoke gave me a totally different answer. They ranged...

Awards Students category
The following films have been awarded in the category ‘Films made by Students of Auroville and the bioregion’: Cinema Paradiso Award ‘DISLIKE & UNSUBSCRIBE’ by YAM Today’s society is struck by constant intrusion and distraction by social media, which is taking away time, pleasure and human interaction in more ways than one. ‘Dislike and Unsubscribe’...