Festival Publications & Downloads
Download festival books, catalogues, and reading materials from different editions. Each publication reflects the films, filmmakers, and ideas that have shaped our festival over the years.
IFFB 2018 Festival Book
The films featuring in the festival are recipients of critical acclaim and honour at both national and international level for their artistic merit and socio-cultural relevance. They engage with and depict in meaningful, thought provoking manner significant contemporary concerns such as social reality, questions of caste and gender inequality, ecology and environment, political and economic change.
IFFB 2024 Festival Book
With increased polarisation and a focus on partisan film making, it is a surprise that independent films are being made although the ecosystem is under increased strain. The effort in this edition is to look at films touching on issues from across the sub-continent. The screenings are a mix of interesting debuts and experienced film makers working in the regional film industry, some of them nudging the space to become pandyaa films. The challenges of pandyaa films can be explored in our opening day special screening. We are screening Subas Das’s Odia film “Eka Eka” which has not been screened before in our town.
IDFFB 2023 Festival Book
Our sense of self is tied to the past we remember, to everyone and everything we have known. Formally, film mimics memory: bringing up before our eyes scenes that happened—that were enacted before the camera—some time ago, documentaries become very powerful, as you see history happening before you. Documentaries can enable resisting Social Amnesia.
IDFFB 2025 Festival Book
Focus of the festival is on young filmmakers working in diverse areas of the country from Kashmie to the North-East. The films at the festival explore issues of migration, gender, uneven development, issues of geo-politics, environmental degradation, political and ethical questions.