121Films
from 53 Countries
Opening Film
THREE FLOORS
by Nanni Moretti
(Cannes Festival 2021, Palme d’Or nominee)
Closing Film
VORTEX
by Gaspar Noé
(San Sebastián International Film Festival 2021 winner)
19th CIFF Overview
World Cinema
Tamil Feature Film Competition
Spectrum of Iranian Cinema
Retrospective of Director
Caroline Link
(German)
Coming of Age – French
Cinema
Country Focus (Korea)
Indian Panorama
Malayalam Cinema
Highlights of 19th CIFF
Oscar Nominations and Selections
- A Hero – Iranian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards
- When Pomegranates Howl – Australian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards
- Yuni – Indonesian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards
- A Taxi Driver – South Korea’s submission to the Foreign Language Film Award of the 90th Annual Academy Awards
CANNES Film Festival – Winners
- A Hero, Iran
- Lamb, Iceland
- Memoria, Thailand
- Feathers, Greece
BERLIN International Film Festival – Winners:
- Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, Czech Republic – GOLDEN BEAR winner
- Introduction, South Korea – SILVER BEAR winner
- Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, Japan
- Brother’s Keeper, Turkey
- Natural Light, Hungary
- The Girl and The Spider, Switzerland
Master Class
6 sessions conducted by South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce with eminent personalities from the film industry.
19th CIFF
Our Team
Sivan Kannan
Chairman
B Ramakrishnan
Vice Chairman
Emanadar Thangaraj
Festival Director
About CIFF
ICAF started organizing CHENNAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (CIFF) from the year 2003. Striving to be in par with the best International Film Festivals across the globe, CIFF is dedicated to presenting the best of international and Indian Panorama films to the cinema loving city of Chennai, just as it showcases the best of Tamil films to the world.
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