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The BBIFF is a monthly live screening film festival with an annual mega event held in India's City of Joy, Kolkata. It is a Progressive Film Movement that aims to provide a platform for aspiring filmmakers and celebrate cross-cultural understanding through international film. A team of film industry specialists judges all projects on a high level of merit and inventiveness.

In addition to the "Winners" for each category, there are "Finalists" and "Honorable Mentions".

We rate all of the officially selected projects on IMDb.

Awards & Prizes

Monthly winners are immediately eligible to enter the Annual Awards competition. Each category will have a winner chosen by the jury board, who will then receive our official trophy at the yearly event.

The BBIFF official laurel and a personalized certificate of success will be awarded to all projects that are officially selected in each monthly round, contingent on their ultimate standing in the competition.

On FilmFreeway, the notification date refers to the day on which the winners of each monthly round are announced.

At monthly events, only the season's winning projects will be screened.
At annual events, all the yearly winning projects will be screened.

Rules & Terms

By submitting the project, the submitter consents to the following:

1. The film must have English subtitles, unless English is the spoken language.
2. Film posters, stills, teasers, and trailers may be used by BBIFF for promotional purposes; however, the entire film will never be released.
3. There is no way to contest the jury's verdict, which will be definitive.
4. Although a film cannot be withdrawn once it has been submitted, the festival director has the discretion to disqualify any film for specific reasons.
5. Filmmakers and producers assume full responsibility for copyright concerns pertaining to music, scripts, and other artistic and technical elements of their work when they submit their work to BBIFF.

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  • Nobin Kurian

    THANK YOU! for the HONOURABLE MENTION for our movie END OF THE DAY at Beyond Border International Film Festival

    April 2025
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  • Agatha Whitechapel

    Thank you, Beyond Border International Film Festival, for awarding our film 'Bob's Hops' with Best Narrative Feature. Brilliant!

    May 2025
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  • Tomias Dagicour

    Thank you Beyond Border International Film Festival for bringing up our short film worthy of an award!
    We truly feel honored receiving this and sharing Move On to your audience! Thank you again!

    May 2025
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  • Ard Falten

    Thanks very much to the Beyond Border International Film Festival judges for awarding my science fiction comedy screenplay "Sex On the Wrong Brain" the best Comedy Screenplay award!

    May 2025
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  • Tawanna Cullen

    As a first-time filmmaker submitting to a festival, receiving an Honorable Mention for โ€œWhat Are Emotions?โ€ was both exciting and encouraging. It reaffirmed my passion for storytelling and has motivated me to continue creating more films. Thank you Beyond Border International Film Festival for the great experience.

    May 2025
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