Pune International Film Festival

Pune International Film Festival
LocationPune, India
Founded2002
Most recent2023
AwardsPrabhat, Sant Tukaram
DirectorsJabbar Patel
Websitewww.piffindia.com

The Pune International Film Festival (also known as PIFF) is an annual film festival held in Pune, a city in Maharashtra, India. Open to general public, the films are screened at NFAI, Inox, City Pride, PVR cinema halls, all located in Pune city.

Dr Jabbar Patel is the chairman and director of the festival.

The festival commences on the second Thursday and concludes on the third Thursday of January. First Edition of PIFF was started in year 2002[1] and has been running annually except for 2004.

Latest PIFF was concluded on 16 January 2020 in its 18th edition. The theme of year was '60 Years of Foundation of Maharashtra'.[2] It celebrated the centenary year of legends - Federico Fellini, Kaifi Azmi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Shamshad Begum, and Pandit Ravi Shankar. It also paid tribute to late Dr Sriram Lagoo.

Festival categories

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  • World Competition - Films released in earlier year compete for much-coveted 'Prabhat Best International Film Award'
  • Marathi Competition - Marathi films released in earlier year compete for 'Sant Tukaram Best International Marathi Film Award'
  • Student Section - Short films from film schools in India like FTII are screened.
  • Global Cinema - Non-competition category for cinema around the globe
  • Country Focus - A handful of films from one country
  • Theme Section - Films relating to the theme of the festival that year
  • Retrospective - Retrospective on Indian and Foreign director/actor
  • Indian Cinema - Offbeat films produced in India (usually excludes Bollywood and other Indian language mainstream films)
  • Tribute Section - Tribute to film personalities passed that year
  • Special Screening
  • PIFF Workshops - Talks, Seminars, and Workshops on varied subjects by Film Industry persons.
  • Student Animation Section - Short animation films for competition by students.This section was for few years.

Awards

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Sant Tukaram Best International Marathi Film Award winners

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Since 2006, the Government of Maharashtra started awarding the best film in the Marathi competition section at the festival. An international jury watches the competing Marathi films to decide the winner. The award is named after the Marathi film Sant Tukaram, the first Indian entry to be screened at the 5th Venice International Film Festival.

Award-winners
PIFF Edition Year Film Director Ref.
4 2006 Dombivali Fast Nishikanth Kamat [3]
5 2007 Shevri Gajendra Ahire
6 2008 Tingya Mangesh Hadawale [4]
7 2009 Gabhricha Paus Satish Manwar [5]
8 2010 Natarang Ravi Jadhav [6]
9 2011 Baboo Band Baaja Rajesh Pinjani [7]
10 2012 Ha Bharat Maza Sumitra Bhave, Sunil Sukhtankar [8]
11 2013 Kaksparsh Mahesh Manjrekar [9]
12 2014 Fandry Nagraj Manjule [10]
13 2015 Elizabeth Ekadashi Paresh Mokashi [11]
14 2016 Ranga Patanga Prasad Namjoshi [12]
15 2017 Lathe Joshi Mangesh Joshi [13]
16 2018 Pimpal Gajendra Ahire [14]
17 2019 Chumbak Sandeep Modi [15]
18 2020 Anandi Gopal Sameer Vidwans [16]
19 2021 Happy My Son (Porga Majetay) Makarand Mane [17]
20 2022 Potra Shankar Arjunn Dhotre [18]

Prabhat International Award Winners

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The festival started an International Competition section from 2005. The Government of Maharashtra started awarding the best film and the best director in the International Competition. An international jury panel decides the awards. Select awards are listed below.

Edition Year Award Film Director Ref.
3 2005 Best Film Yesterday Darrell Roodt
Jury Award Earth and Ashes Atiq Rahimi
Best Director Dias de Santiago Josué Méndez
4 2006 Best Film L'Enfant (The Child) Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Best Director L'Enfant (The Child) Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
5 2007 Best Film The Old Barber Hasi Chaolu
Best Director The Axe Costa-Gavras
6 2008 Best Film XXY Lucía Puenzo
Best Director Sleepwalking Land Teresa Prata
7 2009 Best Film Lake Tahoe Fernando Eimbcke [19]
Best Director Tulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy
8 2010 Best Film White Lightnin' Dominic Murphy
Best Director Who Is Afraid of the Wolf? Maria Procházková [20]
9 2011 Best Film Dooman River Zhang Lu [21]
Best Director Reverse Borys Lankosz
10 2012 Best Film If Not Us, Who? Andres Veiel [22]
Best Director A Separation Asghar Farhadi
11 2013 Best Film Barbara Christian Petzold
Best Director The Delay Rodrigo Plá
12 2014 Best Film Papusza Krzysztof Krauze & Joanna Kos-Krauze
Best Director (shared) Papusza Krzysztof Krauze & Joanna Kos-Krauze
Best Director (shared) Foreign Bodies Mirko Locatelli
13 2015 Best Film Behaviour Ernesto Daranas
Best Director (shared) Like Never Before Zdeněk Tyc [23]
Best Director (shared) Test (Ispytanie) Alexander Kott
14 2016 Best Film Immortal Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh [24]
Best Director Thithi Raam Reddy
15 2017 Best Film Lost in Munich Petr Zelenka
Best Director The Student Kirill Serebrennikov
16 2018 Best Film Free and Easy Geng Jun
Best Director Zama Lucrecia Martel
17 2019 Best Film Girls of the Sun Eva Husson
Best Director A Translator Rodrigo Barriuso & Sebastian Barriuso
18 2020 Best Film A Son (Bik Eneich: Un Fils) Mehdi Barsaoui [25]
Best Director Supernova Bartosz Kruhlik
19 2021 Best Film Should the Wind Drop (French: Si le vent tombe) Nora Martirosyan [26]
Best Director Barah By Barah Gaurav Madan [27]
20 2022 Best Film Between Two Dawns Selman Nacar [28]
Best Director 107 Mothers Péter Kerekes [29]

PIFF Distinguished Award

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PIFF Distinguished Award for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema.

Edition Year Awardees References
1 2002 Dilip Kumar [30]
Mrinal Sen
2 2003 Lata Mangeshkar [31]
Dev Anand
3 2005 Waheeda Rehman [32]
Shakti Samanta
4 2006 Vyjayantimala [33]
Yash Chopra
5 2007 Asha Parekh
Dharmendra
6 2008 Sharmila Tagore [34]
Shammi Kapoor
7 2009 Shashi Kapoor [35]
Sulochana Didi
Hema Malini
8 2010 Shriram Lagoo [36]
Rajesh Khanna
9 2011 Shashikala [37]
Saira Banu
10 2012 Amitabh Bachchan [38]
Asha Bhosale
11 2013 Ramesh Deo [39]
Jeetendra
12 2014 Adoor Gopalakrishnan [40]
Vinod Khanna
13 2015 N. D. Mahanor [41]
Shatrughan Sinha
Tanuja Mukerjee
Krzysztof Zanussi
14 2016 Soumitra Chatterjee [42]
Shyam Benegal
15 2017 Aparna Sen [43]
Seema Deo
16 2018 Ramesh Prasad [44]
Ramesh Sippy
Raj Dutt
17 2019 Dilip Prabhavalkar [45]
Govind Nihalani
18 2020 B. P. Singh [46]
Vikram Gokhale
18 2021 Ashok Saraf [47]

S.D. Burman PIFF Award

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Edition Year Awardees References
8 2010 Pyarelal Sharma [48]
9 2011 Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
10 2012 Ilaiyaraaja
11 2013 Shivkumar Sharma [49]
Hariprasad Chaurasia
12 2014 Hridaynath Mangeshkar [50]
13 2015 Anandji Virji Shah
14 2016 Uttam Singh
15 2021 Zakir Hussain [51]
16 2017 S. P. Balasubrahmanyam [52]
17 2018 Raamlaxman [53]
18 2019 Usha Khanna [54]

See also

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References

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