18th Mumbai International Film Festival to be held from 15-21 June

New Delhi, June 7: Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Sanjay Jaju today announced that the 18th edition of the Mumbai International Film Festival will be held from 15th June to 21st June, 2024 in Mumbai.

He said that while the venue for the festival will be the FD-NFDC Complex, Mumbai, MIFF screenings will also be held in Delhi (Sirifort Auditorium), Chennai (Tagore Film Centre), Pune (NFAI auditorium) and Kolkata (SRFTI Auditorium).

Also present on the occasion were Additional Secretary, Neerja Sekhar, PDG, PIB, Sheyphali B. Sharan and MD, NFDC, Prithul Kumar.

MIFF Film Programming Record Film Submission of 1018 films this year for the competition sections from 38 Countries across 65 languages 118 films selected by the 3 Selection Committees of eminent film experts for the International (25) and National (77) competition sections. The Selection Committee also unanimously remarked that very high quality of film submissions has been received this year which made the selections tough.

Total 314 films in the MIFF Programming this year

There will be 8 world premieres, 6 international premieres, 17 Asia premieres and 15 India Premieres.

Special packages have been curated in this edition, including:

Award winning films package of Oscars and Berlinale (12 short films each), ‘Special Country Focus Packages’ from collaborating with 7 countries - Russia, Japan, Belarus, Italy, Iran, Vietnam and Mali and animation package curated from 4 countries - France, Slovenia, Argentina and Greece

International jury includes eminent film personalities from across the world - Keiko Bang, Barthélemy Fougea, Audrius Stonys, Bharat Bala, and Manas Choudhary, who will award the Golden Conch for the best documentary film, the Silver Conch for the best international short fiction film and best animation film, and the Pramod Pati award for the most innovative, experimental film.