The heritage of veteran Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal will be honored at the New York Indian Film Festival, which will celebrate its silver jubilee this year with a performance of various cinematic works, which will feature famous artists like Manoz Bajpey, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Rasika Dugli.
The longest running and reputed American festival dedicated to Indian independent cinema, the festival, will celebrate the 25th edition of its milestone from June 20-22, which spotted “bold new voice, storage autores and instant stories” from the Indian sub-center and its global diaspora.
The festival director Asim Chhabra said in a press statement on Monday, “What started as a ground level platform is now a global platform for Indian independent cinema.”
“This year’s lineup is our most powerful and widely one till date. From depth individual documentaries to regional narratives that rarely reach the global audiences, the 25th edition of the NYFF reflects the developed language of Indian cinema.” The festival will pay tribute to Benegal, who is “Titan of Indian Parallel Cinema”, who died in December 2024 at the age of 90. churnBenegal’s Landmark was restored by the film Heritage Foundation about the 1976 film India’s white revolution. In 2024, the film premiered at Cannes Classics.
This Oscar winning film director James Ivory will also honor the work A arrested momentA small documentary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, directed by Dev Benegal. The film investigated Ivory’s “Permanent attraction with Indian art and culture”.
The 2025 NYFF lineup includes 22 feature-length films- 18 stories and four documentaries- tell about more than a dozen languages ​​and regions. The festival program also includes 21 short stories and documentary films.
From Tamil and Odia to Assamese, Hindi and Malayalam, the selection of works shown on the festival shows “both the diversity and developed language of Indian cinema,” it has been said. Chhabra said that Siddiqui, who has won two NYFF best actor trophies, will participate in this year’s celebration.
The Executive Director of the Indo-American Arts Council, who presents NYFF, said Suman Golmoodi said that the festival is a long place where India’s cinematic heritage comes from its most adventurous futures. “At the age of 25, we are not just celebrating the past – we are investing in it.”
The 2025 festival opens with the Eastern Coast Premier of Manoj Bajpayee, Priyanka Bose and Deepak Dobial starrer. StoryDirected by Ram Reddy. With a start in 2024 Berlinley, the film “merges with surrealism and psychological stress against the backdrop of the Himalayas”. The film, whose actors’ contingent includes a camio Tilotama Shom, recently took the best film at the Leeds International Film Festival.
The center piece of the festival is Noor thriller KennedyRahul Bhat and Sunny Leone starrer and directed by Anurag Kashyap.
Closing night film, Little ThomasIn the 1990s, Goa has an upcoming age drama set, in which the direction of Kaushal Oja has started. Dugal in the film Mirzapur Fame and Gulshan Devaiya Hunter” And Ulj Fame, which will be in appearance with the crew.
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Siddiqui I am not an actorA film that reduces the story and reality in a bright critical of fame and identity “, Marathi Documentary March in darkness On the widows of suicidal farmers; Renaissance man About MP Vivek Tankha and Tortoise Which follows a conservationist mission to protect India’s marine turtles, is one of the line-ups of films that will be displayed at the festival.
Nonphitions of the festival are included in programming A fly on the wallA film by Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar documentation in Switzerland documentation of medical suicide.
The New York Indian Film Festival is presented every year by the Indo-American Arts Council, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Indian art and culture in the United States. Since its establishment in 2001, Nyiff has performed the best in Indian cinema, celebrating the diversity and creativity of filmmakers from India and around the world.
Published – 22 April, 2025 01:31 pm IST
