Pune International Film Festival

Pune International Film Festival

Location	Pune, India
Founded	2002
Most recent	2023
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.

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

• 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

• Government of Maharashtra Prabhat Best International Film
• Government of Maharashtra Prabhat Best International Film Director
• Government of Maharashtra Sant Tukaram Best International Marathi Film

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 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

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	Peter Kerekes	[29]

PIFF Distinguished Award

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
19	2021	Ashok Saraf	[47]
23	2025	Anupam Kher	[48]
		Shubha Khote

S.D. Burman PIFF Award

Edition	Year	Awardees	References
8	2010	Pyarelal Sharma	[49]
9	2011	Mohammed Zahur Khayyam
10	2012	Ilaiyaraaja
11	2013	Shivkumar Sharma	[50]
		Hariprasad Chaurasia
12	2014	Hridaynath Mangeshkar	[51]
13	2015	Anandji Virji Shah
14	2016	Uttam Singh
15	2021	Zakir Hussain	[52]
16	2017	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam	[53]
17	2018	Raamlaxman	[54]
18	2019	Usha Khanna	[55]
23	2025	Kavita Krishnamurti	[48]

See also

• Marathi cinema
• Cinema of India
• Film festival

References

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External links

• Official website of PIFF, India