Tagore International Film Festival

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Tagore International Film Festival
Location Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Founded2017
LanguageInternational
Website https://tiff-b.com/

The Tagore International Film Festival (also known as TIFF) is an annual international film festival held in Santiniketan, India, that showcases features and shorts by filmmakers from around the world to an audience of film lovers, professionals, journalists and buyers. [1] [2] It was established in 2017 and is named for Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. It is an IMDb award-qualifying film festival. [3]

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Awards

The Sun of the East Awards are given each year for significant movies and people in a variety of categories. [4]

2023 Festival

2022 Festival

2021 Festival

2020 Festival

2019 Festival

2018 Festival

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