07-08-2025
Second International film festival commences today
The 2nd International Film Festival hosted by the Puducherry Film Forum showcasing a cross-section of world cinema gets under way at Alliance Francaise on Friday, August 8, 2025.
The three-day free-entry fete, in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association, will screen films from the US, France, Spain, UK, Iran and Argentina apart from India, organisers told a press conference on Thursday.
A. Sreekar Prasad, multiple national award-winning film editor, will inaugurate the festival at 5.30 p.m. in the presence of Tourism Minister K. Lakshminarayanan, Nallam Sathish, president of Alliance Française, Laurent Jalicous, Director of Alliance Française, C. Patcheammalle, Secretary of the Puducherry Film Forum and prominent personalities from the realm of film and literature.
In addition to the shows, the event will also feature a masterclass by filmmaker Sivakumar Mohanan, who will be in conversation with Sreekar Prasad at noon on August 9, film reviews and discussions.
The Forum had launched the first film festival in 2024, building on its 12-year legacy of organising international documentary and short film festivals annually since 2011.
The inaugural will be followed by the screening of the Belgian-French film Tori and Lokita by Dardennes Brothers that had premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.
