Pune International Film Festival

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Pune International Film Festival
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Location Pune, India
Founded2002
Most recent2023
Awards Prabhat, Sant Tukaram
Directors Jabbar Patel
Website www.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.

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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

Awards

Sant Tukaram Best International Marathi Film Award winners

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 EditionYearFilmDirectorRef.
42006 Dombivali Fast Nishikanth Kamat [3]
52007 Shevri Gajendra Ahire
62008 Tingya Mangesh Hadawale [4]
72009 Gabhricha Paus Satish Manwar [5]
82010 Natarang Ravi Jadhav [6]
92011 Baboo Band Baaja Rajesh Pinjani [7]
102012Ha Bharat Maza Sumitra Bhave, Sunil Sukhtankar [8]
112013 Kaksparsh Mahesh Manjrekar [9]
122014 Fandry Nagraj Manjule [10]
132015 Elizabeth Ekadashi Paresh Mokashi [11]
142016Ranga PatangaPrasad Namjoshi [12]
152017 Lathe Joshi Mangesh Joshi [13]
162018Pimpal Gajendra Ahire [14]
172019 Chumbak Sandeep Modi [15]
182020 Anandi Gopal Sameer Vidwans [16]
192021Happy My Son (Porga Majetay) Makarand Mane [17]
202022Potra Shankar Arjunn Dhotre [18]

Prabhat International Award Winners

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.

EditionYearAwardFilmDirectorRef.
32005Best Film Yesterday Darrell Roodt
Jury Award Earth and Ashes Atiq Rahimi
Best Director Dias de Santiago Josué Méndez
42006Best Film L'Enfant (The Child) Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Best Director L'Enfant (The Child) Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
52007Best FilmThe Old Barber Hasi Chaolu
Best Director The Axe Costa-Gavras
62008Best Film XXY Lucía Puenzo
Best Director Sleepwalking Land Teresa Prata
72009Best Film Lake Tahoe Fernando Eimbcke [19]
Best Director Tulpan Sergey Dvortsevoy
82010Best Film White Lightnin' Dominic Murphy
Best DirectorWho Is Afraid of the Wolf?Maria Procházková [20]
92011Best Film Dooman River Zhang Lu [21]
Best Director Reverse Borys Lankosz
102012Best Film If Not Us, Who? Andres Veiel [22]
Best Director A Separation Asghar Farhadi
112013Best Film Barbara Christian Petzold
Best Director The Delay Rodrigo Plá
122014Best Film Papusza Krzysztof Krauze & Joanna Kos-Krauze
Best Director (shared) Papusza Krzysztof Krauze & Joanna Kos-Krauze
Best Director (shared)Foreign BodiesMirko Locatelli
132015Best Film Behaviour Ernesto Daranas
Best Director (shared)Like Never BeforeZdeněk Tyc [23]
Best Director (shared) Test (Ispytanie) Alexander Kott
142016Best Film Immortal Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh [24]
Best Director Thithi Raam Reddy
152017Best Film Lost in Munich Petr Zelenka
Best Director The Student Kirill Serebrennikov
162018Best Film Free and Easy Geng Jun
Best Director Zama Lucrecia Martel
172019Best Film Girls of the Sun Eva Husson
Best DirectorA TranslatorRodrigo Barriuso & Sebastian Barriuso
182020Best FilmA Son (Bik Eneich: Un Fils) Mehdi Barsaoui [25]
Best DirectorSupernovaBartosz Kruhlik
192021Best Film Should the Wind Drop (French: Si le vent tombe)Nora Martirosyan [26]
Best DirectorBarah By BarahGaurav Madan [27]
202022Best Film Between Two Dawns Selman Nacar [28]
Best Director 107 Mothers Péter Kerekes [29]

PIFF Distinguished Award

PIFF Distinguished Award for Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema.

EditionYearAwardeesReferences
12002 Dilip Kumar [30]
Mrinal Sen
22003 Lata Mangeshkar [31]
Dev Anand
32005 Waheeda Rehman [32]
Shakti Samanta
42006 Vyjayantimala [33]
Yash Chopra
52007 Asha Parekh
Dharmendra
62008 Sharmila Tagore [34]
Shammi Kapoor
72009 Shashi Kapoor [35]
Sulochana Didi
Hema Malini
82010 Shriram Lagoo [36]
Rajesh Khanna
92011 Shashikala [37]
Saira Banu
102012 Amitabh Bachchan [38]
Asha Bhosale
112013 Ramesh Deo [39]
Jeetendra
122014 Adoor Gopalakrishnan [40]
Vinod Khanna
132015 N. D. Mahanor [41]
Shatrughan Sinha
Tanuja Mukerjee
Krzysztof Zanussi
142016 Soumitra Chatterjee [42]
Shyam Benegal
152017 Aparna Sen [43]
Seema Deo
162018 Ramesh Prasad [44]
Ramesh Sippy
Raj Dutt
172019 Dilip Prabhavalkar [45]
Govind Nihalani
182020 B. P. Singh [46]
Vikram Gokhale
182021 Ashok Saraf [47]

S.D. Burman PIFF Award

EditionYearAwardeesReferences
82010 Pyarelal Sharma [48]
92011 Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
102012 Ilaiyaraaja
112013 Shivkumar Sharma [49]
Hariprasad Chaurasia
122014 Hridaynath Mangeshkar [50]
132015 Anandji Virji Shah
142016 Uttam Singh
152021 Zakir Hussain [51]
162017 S. P. Balasubrahmanyam [52]
172018 Raamlaxman [53]
182019 Usha Khanna [54]

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