# 52nd International Film Festival of India

The 52nd International Film Festival of India opened on 20 November 2021 with The King of All the World (El Rey de Todo El Mundo) by Carlos Saura in Goa. Like the 51st edition, this edition was held in a hybrid format which combined online and face-to-face participation. The BRICS Film Festival was held alongside main festival, in which films from BRICS nations, namely Brazil, Russia, South Africa, China and India were showcased. These five countries were 'the 'countries of focus' in the 52nd edition of the festival.
In the 2021 festival, on the occasion of the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, the Directorate of Film Festivals paid tribute to him through a 'Special Retrospective' in which his 11 specially curated films were screened. The Lifetime Achievement award, in recognition of the auteur's legacy, was named the ‘Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award’ from this year. In this edition, for the first time, streaming video platforms Netflix, Amazon Prime, Zee5, Voot and Sony Liv participated in a series of physical and virtual events.
The opening ceremony on 20 November 2021, hosted by Karan Johar and Manish Paul, was aired live. It was also streamed live on YouTube. The festival closed on 28 November with Asghar Farhadi's film A Hero, and the closing ceremony was streamed live on YouTube.

## Events

Being a 'hybrid' film festival, a few events were organised online also.

### Master classes

* Netflix organised a three-day virtual masterclass by the school of image and arts, Gobelins, l'École de l'image, based in Paris.
* Screenwriters Sumit Purohit and Saurav Dey held master classes organised by SonyLiv.
* Nitesh Tiwari and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari curated Breakpoint, a series on tennis stars Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, organised by ZEE5.
* 75 creative minds in the age group of 35 years and below were invited to interact with industry stalwarts and attend masterclasses.

### Tribute

The festival paid tribute to:
* Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and film producer
* Sumitra Bhave, Indian filmmaker
* Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Indian poet and filmmaker
* Sanchari Vijay, Indian actor
* Surekha Sikri, Indian theatre, film and television actress
* Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
* Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter, actor and producer
* Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor
* Jean-Claude Carrière, French novelist, screenwriter and actor
* Sean Connery, Scottish actor
* Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and dancer

### Retrospective films section

The retrospective section featured Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, Russian filmmaker and stage director Andrei Konchalovsky, and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Rajinikanth.

### Creative minds of the future

75 creative minds selected in the first round by a selection jury and in the final round by a grand jury attended the 52nd International Film Festival. These '75 Creative Minds of Tomorrow' in the age group of 35 years and below interacted with industry stalwarts and attended the masterclasses.

#### Grand jury

* Prasoon Joshi, lyricist and chairman, Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)
* Ketan Mehta, director
* Shankar Mahadevan, composer and singer
* Manoj Bajpayee, actor
* Resul Pookutty, Oscar winning sound recordist
* Vipul Amrutlal Shah, filmmaker

#### Selection jury

* Vani Tripathi, producer and actor, member of CBFC
* Anant Vijay, writer
* Yatindra Mishra, author and writer
* Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, filmmaker
* Sachin Khedekar, actor, director

## Jury

Sources:

### International jury

* Rakhshān Banietemad (Iran), filmmaker, chairperson
* Stephen Woolley (UK), film producer and director
* Ciro Guerra (Columbia), film director and screenwriter
* Vimukthi Jayasundara (Sri Lanka), filmmaker, critic and visual artist
* Nila Madhab Panda (India), producer and director

### Feature film jury

* SV Rajendra Singh Babu (India), filmmaker and actor, works in Kannada cinema, chairperson
* Rajendra Hegde, audiographer
* Makhonmani Mongsaba, filmmaker
* Vinod Anupama, film critic
* Jayashree Bhattcharya, filmmaker
* Gyan Sahay, cinematographer
* Prasantanu Mohapatra, cinematographer
* Hemendra Bhatia, actor, writer and filmmaker
* Asim Bose, cinematographer
* Pramod Pawar, actor and filmmaker
* Manjunath T S, cinematographer
* Malay Ray, filmmaker
* Parag Chhapekar, filmmaker, journalist

### Non-feature film jury

* S. Nallamuthu (India), leading wildlife and documentary filmmaker, chairperson
* Akashaditya Lama, filmmaker
* Sibanu Borah, documentary filmmaker
* Suresh Sharma, film producer
* Subrat Jyoti Neog, film critic
* Manisha Kulshreshtha, writer
* Atul Gangwar, writer

### Preview committee

Source:
* Suresh Bhardwaj, ex professor and dean, NSD
* Malti Sahay, ex director, IFFI
* Manjula Shirodkar, journalist and film critic
* Satinder Mohan, ADG (Rtd) MOD, film critic
* Rajesh S. Jala, filmmaker
* Joydeep Ghosh, filmmaker and journalist
* Shyam Malick, filmmaker and journalist
* Vishnu Sharma, author, film critic, and journalist

## Official selection

Source:

### Sections

* Kaleidoscope section
* Golden Peacock Award
* Films for debut competition
* ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal
* Indian Panorama
** Feature films
** Non-feature films
* World Panorama
* Soul of Asia
* Country of focus
* Masters of cinema
* Jury package
* Special Tribute/Homage
* Retrospective film
* Sports package
* Special screening
* India @75

### Opening and closing films

Source:
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| Opening films |||||
| 2021 | The King of All the World | El rey de todo el mundo | Carlos Saura | Spain, Mexico |
| Indian Panorama feature film |||||
| 2021 | Semkhor | Semkhor | Aimee Baruah | India |
| Indian Panorama non-feature film |||||
| 2021 | Ved...The Visionary | Ved...The Visionary | Rajiv Parkash | India |
| Mid fest film |||||
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States |
| Closing film |||||
| 2021 | A Hero | قهرمان (Ghahreman) | Asghar Farhadi | Iran, France |

### Kaleidoscope section

11 films are shortlisted for screening under Kaleidoscope section.
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2021 | Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Radu Jude | Romanian |
| 2021 | Brighton 4th | Brighton 4th | Levan Koguashvili | Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, Monaco, USA |
| 2021 | Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland, Germany, Estonia, Russia |
| 2021 | Feathers | Feathers | Omar El Zohairy | France, Egypt, The Netherlands, Greece |
| 2021 | I'm Your Man | Ich bin dein Mensch | Maria Schrader | Germany |
| 2021 | Red Rocket | Red Rocket | Sean Baker | United States of America |
| 2020 | Souad | | Ayten Amin | Egypt, Tunisia, Germany |
| 2021 | Spencer | | Pablo Larraín | Germany, UK, Chile |
| 2021 | The Story of My Wife | A feleségem története | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary, Germany, Italy, France |
| 2021 | The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark |
| 2021 | Titanium | Titane | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium |

### Golden Peacock Award

Source:
    Highlighted title indicates award winner
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2020 | Any Day Now | Ensilumi | Hamy Ramezan | Finland |
| 2021 | Charlotte | | Simon Franco | Paraguay |
| 2021 | Godavari | Godavari | Nikhil Mahajan | India |
| 2021 | Întregalde | Întregalde | Radu Muntean | Romania |
| 2021 | Land of Dreams | Land of Dreams | Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari | New Mexico, USA |
| 2021 | Leader | Lider | Katia Priwieziencew | Poland |
| 2020 | Mee Vasantrao | Mee Vasantrao | Nipun Avinash Dharmadhikari | India |
| 2021 | Moscow Does Not Happen | Moskvy Ne Byvayet | Dmitry Fedorov | Russia |
| 2021 | No Ground Beneath the Feet | No Ground Beneath the Feet | Mohammad Rabby Mridha | Bangladesh |
| 2021 | Once We Were Good For You | A bili smo vam dobri | Branko Schmidt | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 2021 | Ring Wandering | リング・ワンダリング | Masakazu Kaneko | Japan |
| 2021 | Saving One Who Was Dead | Zpráva o záchraně mrtvého | Václav Kadrnka | Czech Republic |
| 2021 | Semkhor | | Aimee Baruah | India |
| 2021 | The Dorm | Общага | Roman Vasyanov | Russia |
| 2021 | The First Fallen | Los Primeiros Soldados | Rodrigo de Oliveira | Brazil |

### Films for debut competition

Source:
    Highlighted title indicates award winner
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2020 | Dollu | | Sagar Puranik | India |
| 2020 | Funeral | Funeral | Vivek Rajendra Dubey | India |
| 2021 | Magoado | | Rubén Sainz | Spain |
| 2021 | Maman | | Arash Aneessee | Iran |
| 2021 | Pack of Sheep | | Dimitris Kanellopoulos | Greece |
| 2021 | Rain | | Janno Jürgens | Estonia |
| 2021 | Sweet Disaster | | Laura Lehmus | Germany |
| 2021 | The Wealth of the World | La riqueza del mundo | Simon Farriol | Chile, Italy |
| 2021 | Zahorí | Zahorí | Marí Alessandrini | Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, France |

### IFFI ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal

Source:
    Highlighted title indicates award winner
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2021 | 21st Tiffin | 21મું ટિફિન | Vijaygiri Bava | India |
| 2021 | Commitment Hasan | Bağlılık Hasan | Semih Kaplanoğlu | Turkey |
| 2021 | Killing the Eunuch Khan | Persian: کشتن خواجه | Abed Abest | Iran |
| 2021 | Lingui, The Sacred Bonds | Lingui, les liens sacrés | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad, France, Belgium, Germany |
| 2021 | Night Forest | Nachtwald | André Hörmann, Katrin Milhahn | Germany |
| 2021 | Niraye Thathakalulla Maram | നിറയെ തത്തകളുള്ള മരം | Jayaraj | India |
| 2020 | Pebbles | Koozhangal | Vinothraj P S | India |
| 2021 | Tokyo Shaking [fr] | | Olivier Peyon | France |
| 2020 | When Pomegranates Howl | | Granaz Moussavi | Australia, Afghanistan |

### Indian Panorama

In Indian Panorama, feature and non-feature films of cinematic, thematic, and aesthetic excellence are selected for the promotion of film art through the non-profit screening of these films under different categories.

#### Feature films

India's entry for the 2022 Academy Awards, Tamil film Koozhangal, was screened in the Indian Panorama feature film segment. 24 feature films reflecting the vibrancy and diversity of the Indian film industry were selected out of 221 contemporary films for screening.
| Title of the film | Language | Director(s) | Producer(s) |
| 21st Tiffin (Ekvismu Tiffin) | Gujarati | Vijaygiri Bava | |
| Abhijaan | Bengali | Parambrata Chatterjee | Ratan Shree Nirman, Roadshow Films Pvt Ltd |
| Act 1978 | Kannada | Manjunatha S. (Mansore) | |
| Alpha Beta Gamma | Hindi | Shankar Srikumar | Jithin Raj, Menka Sharma, Mona Shankar, Thomas Punnoose |
| Bhagavadajjukam | Sanskrit | Yadu Vijayakrishnan | |
| Bittersweet | Marathi | Anant Mahadevan | |
| Boomba Ride | Mishing | Biswajeet Bora | |
| Dollu | Kannada | Sagar Puranik | |
| Eight Down Toofaan Mail | Hindi | Akriti Singh | Storia Senza Storia |
| Funeral | Marathi | Vivek Rajendra Dubey | |
| Godavari | Marathi | Nikhil Mahajan | Jitendra Joshi, Mitali Joshi, Pavan Malu, Nikhil Mahajan |
| Kalkokkho (House of Time) | Bengali | Rajdeep Paul & Sarmistha Maiti | |
| Manikbabur Megh (The Cloud & the Man) | Bengali | Abhinandan Banerjee | Bauddhayan Mukherji, Monalisa Mukherji |
| Mee Vasantrao | Marathi | Nipun Avinash Dharmadhikari | |
| Natyam | Telugu | Revanth Korukonda | Sandhya Raju |
| Neeli Hakki | Kannada | Ganesh Hegde | Ganesh, Suman Shetty, Vinay Shetty |
| Niraye Thathakalulla Maram | Malayalam | Jayaraj | |
| Nitantoi Sahaj Saral | Bengali | Satrabit Paul | |
| Koozhangal | Tamil | Vinothraj P S | Nayanthara, Vignesh Shivan |
| Prawaas | Marathi | Shashank Udapurkar | Om Chhangani |
| Semkhor | Dimasa | Aimee Baruah | |
| Sijou | Bodo | Vishal P. Chaliha | |
| Sunny | Malayalam | Ranjith Sankar | Jayasurya, Ranjith Sankar |
| Taledanda | Kannada | Praveen Krupakar | Kripanidhi Kreations |

#### Non-feature films

| Title of the film | Language | Director(s) |
| Bablu Babylon Se | Hindi | Abhijeet Sarthi |
| Backstage | Oriya | Lipka Singh Darai |
| Badal Sircar & the Alternative Theatre | English | Ashok Viswanathan |
| Bharat Prakriti Ka Balak | Hindi | Dr. Deepika Kothari & Ramji Om |
| Ganga-Putra | Hindi | Jai Prakash |
| Gajra | Hindi | Vineet Sharma |
| Jugalbandi | Hindi | Chetan Bhakuni |
| Murmurs of the Jungle | Marathi | Sohil Vaidya |
| Naad – The Sound | Bengali | Abhijit Ashok Paul (Abhijit A Paul) |
| Pabung Syam | Manipuri | Haobam Paban Kumar |
| The Knocker | Hindi | Ananth Narayan Mahadevan |
| Sainbari To Sandeshkhali | Bengali | Sanghamitra Chaudhuri |
| The Spell of Purple | Gujarati | Prachee Bajania |
| Sunpat | Garhwali | Rahul Rawat |
| Surmounting Challenges | English | Satish Pande |
| Sweet Biriyani | Tamil | Jeyachandra Hashmi |
| Teen Adhyay | Hindi | Subash Sahoo |
| Veerangana | Assamese | Kishore Kalita |
| Ved...The Visionary | English | Rajiv Parkash |
| Witch | Santali | Jackie R. Bala |

### World Panorama

55 films were invited for screening under the World Panorama section.
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2021 | 1000 Dreams | Мин кыял | Marat Sarulu | Kyrgyzstan |
| 2021 | A Film About Couples | Una Película Sobre Parejas | Natalia Cabral, Oriol Estrada | Dominican Republic |
| 2021 | A Higher Law | Balaur | Octav Chelaru | Romania, Germany, Serbia |
| 2021 | Absence | | Ali Mosaffa | Iran, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic |
| 2021 | Abu Omar | | Roy Krispel | Israel |
| 2021 | Anaïs in Love | Les Amours d’Anaïs | Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet | France |
| 2021 | Asterrarium | | Armen H'Akopian | Russian |
| 2021 | Atlantide | Atlantide | Yuri Ancarani | Italy, France, US, Qatar |
| 2021 | Bebia, À Mon Seul Désir | | Juja Dobrachkous | Georgia, UK |
| 2021 | Bergman Island | Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden |
| 2021 | Captain Volkonogov Escaped | Капитан Волконогов бежал | Natalya Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov | Russia |
| 2021 | Celts | Kelt | Milica Tomović | Serbia |
| 2021 | Clara Sola | | Nathalie Álvarez Mesén | Sweden, Costa Rica, Belgium |
| 2021 | Dark Matter | | Iman Tahsin | Andorra |
| 2021 | Fathers | | Salem Salavati | Iran |
| 2021 | Hinterland | Hinterland | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Austria, Luxembourg |
| 2021 | Holy Island | | Robert Manson | Ireland |
| 2021 | Humanization | | Giulio Musi | Sweden |
| 2021 | Islands | Islands | Martin Edralin | Canada |
| 2021 | Lamb | Dýrið | Valdimar Jóhannsson | Iceland, Sweden, Poland |
| 2021 | Love Songs for Tough Guys | Cette musique ne joue pour personne | Samuel Benchetrit | France, Belgium |
| 2021 | Luzzu | Luzzu | Alex Camilleri | Malta |
| 2021 | Miss Osaka | Miss Osaka | Daniel Dencik | Denmark, Norway, Japan |
| 2021 | Nightride | Nightride | Stephen Fingleton | United Kingdom |
| 2021 | Ninjababy | Ninjababy | Yngvild Sve Flikke | Norway |
| 2021 | Our Father | | David Pantaleón | Spain |
| 2021 | Out of Sync | Tres | Juanjo Giménez | Spain, Lithuania, France |
| 2021 | Patio of Illusion | | Shangshi Chen | Macau |
| 2021 | Private Desert | | Aly Muritiba | Brazil, Portugal |
| 2021 | Promises | | Thomas Kruithof | France |
| 2021 | Pure White | | Necip Caghan Ozdemir | Turkey |
| 2021 | Rafaela | | Tito Rodriguez | Dominican Republic |
| 2021 | Rhino | Носоріг | Oleh Sentsov | Ukraine, Poland, Germany |
| 2021 | Saloum | | Jean Luc Herbulot | Senegal |
| 2021 | Silent Land | Cicha Ziemia | Aga Woszczyńska | Poland, Italy, Czech Republic |
| 2021 | Tailor | | Sonia Liza Kenterman | Greece, Germany, Belgium |
| 2021 | The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See the Titanic | Sokea mies, joka ei halunnut nähdä Titanicia | Teemu Nikki | Finland |
| 2021 | The Book of Delights | | Marcela Lordy | Brazil |
| 2021 | The Exam | | Shawkat Amin Korki | Germany, Iraq, Qatar |
| 2021 | The Giants | I giganti | Bonifacio Angius | Italy |
| 2021 | The Girl and The Spider | The Girl and The Spider | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland |
| 2021 | The Gravedigger's Wife | The Gravedigger's Wife | Khadar Ayderus Ahmed | France, Somalia, Germany, Finland |
| 2021 | The Guest | | Ana Mancera | Spain |
| 2021 | The Hotel | | Aleksandr Baluev | Russia |
| 2021 | The Innocents | De uskyldige | Eskil Vogt | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, United Kingdom |
| 2021 | The Night Belongs to Lovers | La Nuit Aux Amants | Julien Hilmoine | France |
| 2021 | The Odd-Job Men | Sis dies corrents | Neus Ballús | Spain |
| 2021 | The Preacher | El Rezador | Tito Jara H. | Ecuador, Colombia, Spain |
| 2021 | The Red Tree | El árbol rojo | Joan Gómez Endara | Colombia, Panama, France |
| 2021 | The Restless | Les Intranquilles | Joachim Lafosse | France, Belgium, Luxembourg |
| 2021 | The Seed | Die Saat | Mia Maariel Meyer | Germany |
| 2021 | The Staffroom | Zbornica | Sonja Tarokić | Croatia |
| 2021 | The Sun of that Moon | | Setareh Eskandari | Iran |
| 2021 | Unbalanced | | Juan Baldana | Argentina |
| 2021 | What We Know | | Jordi Núñez | Spain |

### Soul of Asia

Six films were slated for screening under this section.
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2021 | Ahed's Knee | הַבֶּרֶךְ | Nadav Lapid | Israel, France, Germany |
| 2021 | Costa Brava, Lebanon | Costa Brava, Lebanon | Mounia Akl | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States |
| 2021 | Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | Arthur Harari | France |
| 2021 | Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | 偶然と想像 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
| 2021 | Whether the Weather Is Fine | Kun Maupay Man it Panahon | Carlo Francisco Manatad | Philippines |
| 2021 | Yuni | Yuni | Kamila Andini | Indonesia, Singapore, France, Australia |

### Country of focus

The 6th edition of BRICS Film Festival was held alongside main festival, in which films from BRICS nations, namely Brazil, Russia, South Africa, China and India, are showcased. These five countries are 'countries of focus'.
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2018 | Antes Que Eu Me Esqueça | | Tiago Arakilian | Brazil |
| 2020 | Barakat | | Amy Jephta | South Africa |
| 2021 | Día de los Muertos | ДЕНЬ МЁРТВЫХ | Viktor Ryzhakov | Russia |
| 2020 | Doctor Lisa | Доктор Лиза | Oksana Karas | Russia |
| 2021 | Hi, Mom | 你好，李焕英 | Jia Ling | China |
| 2018 | Odessa | Одесса | Valery Todorovsky | Russia |
| 2017 | On Wheels | | Mauro D'Addio | Brazil |
| 2020 | Sons of the Sea | | John Gutierrez | South Africa |
| 2019 | T-34 | T-34 | Aleksey Sidorov | Russia |
| 2016 | The Great Wall | 长城 | Zhang Yimou | China |
| 2021 | The Whaler Boy | Kitoboy | Philipp Yuryev | Belgium, Poland, Russia |
| 2021 | A Writer's Odyssey | 刺杀小说家 | Lu Yang | China |
| 2016 | Xuan Zang | 玄奘 | Huo Jianqi | China |

### Masters of cinema

| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country(s) |
| 2021 | Everything Went Fine | Tout s'est bien passé | François Ozon | France |
| 2021 | In Front of Your Face | 당신 얼굴 앞에서 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| 2021 | Memoria | Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico, China |
| 2021 | Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| 2021 | Suzanna Andler | Suzanna Andler | Benoît Jacquot | France |
| 2021 | Tom Medina | Tom Medina | Tony Gatlif | France |

### Jury package

| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country(s) |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | | Neil Jordan | UK, Japan |
| 2015 | Embrace of the Serpent | El abrazo de la serpiente | Ciro Guerra | Columbia, Venezuela, Argentina |
| 2005 | The Forsaken Land | Sulanga Enu Pinisa | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Sri Lanka, France |
| 2010 | I Am Kalam | | Nila Madhab Panda | India |
| 1995 | The Blue Veiled | روسری‌آبی | Rakhshān Banietemad | Iran |

### Special tribute

Source:
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country(s) |
| Sean Connery |||||
| 1963 | From Russia with Love | From Russia with Love | Terence Young | United Kingdom |
| 1964 | Goldfinger | Goldfinger | Guy Hamilton | United Kingdom |
| 1967 | You Only Live Twice | You Only Live Twice | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom, United States |
| 1987 | Untouchables | Untouchables | Brian De Palma | United States |
| 1990 | The Hunt For Red October | The Hunt For Red October | John McTiernan | United States |
| Homage |||||
| Bertrand Tavernier |||||
| 1984 | A Sunday in the Country | Un dimanche à la campagne | Bertrand Tavernier | France |
| Christopher Plummer |||||
| 2017 | All the Money in the World | All the Money in the World | Ridley Scott | United States, United Kingdom |
| Jean-Claude Carriere |||||
| 2018 | At Eternity's Gate | At Eternity's Gate | Julian Schnabel | United States, France |
| Jean-Paul Belmondo |||||
| 1960 | Breathless | À bout de souffle | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| Surekha Sikri |||||
| 2018 | Badhaai Ho | Badhaai Ho | Amit Sharma | India |
| Dilip Kumar |||||
| 1955 | Devdas | Devdas | Bimal Roy | India |
| Buddhadeb Dasgupta |||||
| 2005 | Kaalpurush | Kaalpurush | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | India |
| Puneeth Rajkumar |||||
| 2017 | Raajakumara | Raajakumara | Santhosh Ananddram | India |
| Waman Bhonsle Indian film editor |||||
| 1977 | Inkaar | Inkaar | Raj Sippy | India |
| Sanchari Vijay |||||
| 2015 | Naanu Avanalla...Avalu | Naanu Avanalla...Avalu | B. S. Lingadevaru | India |

### Retrospective films

| Year | English title | Original title | Cast/ director |
| Martin Scorsese ||||
| 1976 | Taxi Driver | Taxi Driver | Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd |
| 1990 | Goodfellas | Goodfellas | Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino |
| 2010 | Shutter Island | Shutter Island | Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street | The Wolf of Wall Street | Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill |
| István Szabó (Hungary) ||||
| 1966 | Father | Apa | András Bálint, Miklós Gábor |
| 1981 | Mephisto | Mephisto | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági |
| 1985 | Colonel Redl | Redl ezredes | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech |
| 2001 | Taking Sides | Taking Sides | Harvey Keitel, Stellan Skarsgård |
| Béla Tarr (Hungary) ||||
| 1979 | Family Nest | Családi tüzfészek | Laszlone Horvath, László Horváth |
| 1981 | The Outsider | Szabadgyalog | András Szabó, Jolan Fodor |
| 1988 | Damnation | Kárhozat | Miklós B. Székely, Vali Kerekes |
| 2011 | The Turin Horse | A torinói ló | János Derzsi, Erika Bók |
| Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia) ||||
| 1965 | The First Teacher | Первый учитель | Bolot Beyshenaliyev, Natalya Arinbasarova |
| 1970 | Uncle Vanya | Дядя Ваня | Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Sergei Bondarchuk |
| 1985 | Runaway Train | Runaway Train | Jon Voight, Eric Roberts |
| 2014 | The Postman's White Nights | Белые ночи почтальона Алексея Тряпицына | Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Timur Bondarenko |
| 2016 | Paradise | Рай; Ray | Yuliya Vysotskaya, Christian Clauß |
| Rajinikanth (India) ||||
| 1977 | Avargal | | K. Balachander |
| 1989 | ChaalBaaz | | Pankaj Parashar |
| 1976 | Katha Sangama | | Puttanna Kanagal |

### Sports package

| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) |
| 2020 | The Champion | Mistrz | Maciej Barczewski | Poland |
| 2020 | Fighter | 파이터 | Jéro YUN | South Korea |
| 2021 | Olga | Olga | Elie Grappe | Switzerland |
| 2021 | Rookie | Rookie | Lieven Van Baelen | Belgium |

### Special screening

Source:
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country(s) | Platform |
| 2021 | Dhamaka | Dhamaka | Ram Madhvani | India | Netflix |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States | Netflix |
| 2021 | Chhorii | Chhorii | Vishal Furia | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 2021 | The Family Man | The Family Man | Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 2021 | Sardar Udham | Sardar Udham | Shoojit Sircar | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| Satyajit Ray ||||||
| 1962 | Abhijan | অভিযান | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1956 | Aparajito | অপরাজিত | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1973 | Ashani Sanket | অশনি সংকেত | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1967 | Chiriakhana | | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1964 | Charulata | Cārulatā | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1969 | Hirak Rajar Deshe | | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1958 | Jalsaghar | জলসাঘর | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1955 | Pather Panchali | | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1971 | Seemabaddha | সীমাবদ্ধ | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1974 | Sonar Kella | সোনার কেল্লা | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |
| 1977 | Shatranj Ke Khilari | | Satyajit Ray | India | Amazon Prime Video |

### India @75

Source:
| Year | Original title | English translation | Director(s) | Language |
| 1996 | Agantuk | The Stranger | Satyajit Ray | Bengali |
| 2016 | Airlift | Airlift | Raja Krishna Menon | Hindi |
| 2018 | Andhadhun | Blindly | Sriram Raghavan | Hindi |
| 2012 | Baboo Band Baaja | | Rajesh Pinjani | Marathi |
| 1985 | Bettada Hoovu | Mountain Flower | N. Lakshminarayan | Kannada |
| 1948 | Chanderlekha | Chanderlekha | S. S. Vasan | Tamil |
| 1985 | Chidambaram | Chidambaram | G. Aravindan | Malayalam |
| 2019 | Eigi Kona | Stallone, My Pony | Bobby Wahengbam, Maipaksana Haorongbam | Manipuri |
| 1965 | Guide | Guide | Vijay Anand | Hindi |
| 2006 | Joymoti | Joymoti the saviour | Manju Borah | Assamese |
| 2014 | Kaaka Muttai | The Crow's Egg | M. Manikandan | Tamil |
| 1957 | Kabuliwala | Kabuliwala | Tapan Sinha | Bengali |
| 2015 | Kaasav | Turtle | Sumitra Bhave, Sunil Sukthankar | Marathi |
| 1966 | Sandhya Raga | Sandhya Raga | A. C. Narasimha Murthy, S K Bhagvan | Kannada |
| 1983 | Sagara Sangamam | Confluence | K. Viswanath | Telugu |
| 1955 | Shree 420 | Shree 420 | Raj Kapoor | Hindi |
| 1959 | Sujata | Sujata | Bimal Roy | Hindi |
| 1981 | Thanneer Thanneer | Water... Water | K. Balachander | Tamil |

## Awards and winners

Source:
* Golden Peacock (Best Film): The award carries a cash prize of ₹40 lakh (US$48,000) shared equally between the director and producer. The director will receive the 'Golden Peacock' and a certificate in addition to the cash prize. The Producer will receive a certificate in addition to the cash.
* Silver Peacock:
** Best Director: Silver Peacock, certificate and a cash prize of ₹15 lakh (US$18,000)
** Best Actor: Silver Peacock, certificate and a cash prize of ₹10 lakh (US$12,000)
** Best Actress: Silver Peacock, certificate and a cash prize of ₹10 lakh (US$12,000)
** Best Debut Film of a Director: Silver Peacock, certificate and a cash prize of ₹10 lakh (US$12,000)
** Special Jury Award: Silver Peacock, certificate and a cash prize of ₹15 lakh (US$18,000) given to a film or an individual. The award will be given to the director of the film in case a film wins the award.
** Special Mention:
* ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal
* Stayajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award
* Indian Film Personality of the Year Award

### Winners

Source:
| Winner(s) | Work/ director | Notes |
| Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award ||||
| Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese | Honoured |
| István Szabó | István Szabó | Honoured |
| Indian Film Personality of the Year ||||
| Hema Malini | Hema Malini | Honoured |
| Prasoon Joshi | Prasoon Joshi | Honoured |
| Golden Peacock (Best Film) ||||
| Ring Wandering | Masakazu Kaneko | Won |
| Silver Peacock ||||
| Best Director ||||
| Václav Kadrnka | Saving One Who Was Dead | Won |
| Best Actor ||||
| Jitendra Joshi | Godavari | Won |
| Best Actress ||||
| Ángela Molina | Charlotte | Won |
| Best Debut Film of a Director ||||
| Zahorí | Marí Alessandrini | Won |
| Special Jury Award ||||
| Renata Carvalho | The First Fallen | Won |
| Nikhil Mahajan | Godavari | Won |
| Special Mention ||||
| The Wealth of the World | Simon Farriol | Won |
| Roman Vasyanov | The Dorm | Won |
| ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal ||||
| Lingui, The Sacred Bonds | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Won |

### Winners BRICS Film Festival

| Winner(s) | Work/ director | Country |
| Best Film ||||
| Barakat | Amy Jephta | South Africa |
| The Sun Above Me Never Sets | Lyubov Borisova | Russia |
| Best Director ||||
| Lucia Marat | Ana | Brazil |
| Best Actor ||||
| Dhanush | Asuran | India |
| Best Actress ||||
| Lara Boldorini | On Wheels | Brazil |
| Jury Special Mention ||||
| Han Yan | A Little Red Flower | China |