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The Asian Independent Film Festival is a monthly live screening with a yearly red carpet mega event held in India.

Every season, the AIFF establishes a comprehensive hierarchy of the most important films in the festival circuit, awarding a considerable number of projects in several different categories.

Besides the red carpet mega event, the AIFF directly qualifies the monthly top award-winning projects for the annual event to celebrate the best of the year.

All entries are judged by a team of invited experts from academia and the film industry against a high standard of merit and a very competitive acceptance rate.

Awards & Prizes

All projects that are officially selected in each monthly round will receive the AIFF official laurel and a custom certificate of achievement according to their final status in the competition.

At least 3 different judges score the quality and creativity of each entry. The highest rated entries are nominated for the awards of the respective categories and finally the winners are chosen.

In addition to the "Winners" of each category, there are also "Outstanding Achievement Awards", "Honorable Mentions", and "Official Selections".

All nominated projects are screened at the annual event, which closes with the awards ceremony for the best of the year.

The event date in FilmFreeway designates the day of the announcement of the award winners for each monthly round.

The special screenings and the annual awards have a different timeline that is announced through our website and social media outlets. All submitters are always kept in the loop and informed in advance to be able to make the preparations to attend the events.

Rules & Terms

By submitting the film, the submitter agrees that:

1. The films must include English subtitles (unless the spoken language is English).
2. AIFF can use trailers, teasers, film posters, stills or BTS for promotional purpose (but do not release, under any form or circumstances, the full film)
3. The decision of the Jury will be final and canโ€™t be challenged.
4. Once the film submitted canโ€™t be withdrawn in any circumstances, however festival director reserve the rights to disqualify any film on certain grounds.
5. By submitting movie to AIFF, filmmaker/producer takes the whole responsibility of copyright issues of music, script and other creative and technical aspects of film.

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  • Hamid Castro

    Great festival - very happy to be apart of it!

    August 2024
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  • John NWADIKE

    IAM so much delighted to be part of Asian film festival , their approach and narratives are excellent
    How they handle me as a film maker gives me strength and courage to continue making film. I also thank them for given me a recognition award for my debut film Angel in the ghetto.

    August 2024
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  • Siddharth Kumar

    Delighted to receive the Best Mobile Short Film award for our film Let It Go. The team and I are honoured!
    Great communication and experience with the festival as well. Look forward to submit new works in future seasons. Thankyou!

    July 2024
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  • domenico grillone

    Un festival tutto sommato accettabile. Sono stati precisi nella comunicazione e nella organizzazione, Un grazie per i premi ricevuti,

    March 2024
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  • Daniel Richardson

    Being selected was a exciting and wonderful experience. It was nice to see our hard work being recognized. We'd like to thank everyone involved in this decision. Thank you very much!

    December 2023
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