Festival start: 21 January 2025 – Festival End: 26 January 2025
Welcome to IKSFF 2025. The International Kolkata Short Film Festival 2024 was a grand success. More than 200+ short films and short documentaries from over 30+ countries got submitted. It also received the support and association of many eminent personalities, celebrities, and popular brands. The gala award ceremony was a huge success in the presence of renowned celebrities. Now in its third year, IKSFF 2025 is again ready to attain greater heights.
A few key points:
>> It will be a hybrid event.
>> Selected short films will be screened both online and offline.
>> This year music videos are also welcome.
>> All films selected for screening will get laurels from us.
>> There will be 30 Award Categories
Like previous years, the International Kolkata Short Film Festival, IKSFF 2025 brings the opportunity for Independent filmmakers to showcase their films to the world, using Eventizer, an online platform for cine lovers, critics, actor-actress, and others.
Kolkata, a culturally rich city in India is the hub of many budding filmmakers, actor-actress, eminent personalities related to the film industry, and obviously huge cine-lovers since the past century. The objective of IKSFF is to empower short films across the globe and to nurture the development of newborn filmmakers.
The festival provides a platform for professionals as well as budding filmmakers to showcase their talent to the world. It also gives them interaction and advertising opportunities for their short film at the international level. Cine lovers can purchase tickets through Eventizer and can watch these remarkable works of art from different countries.
In its forth year, IKSFF 2024 https://iksff.co.in/ is all set to continue its success and achieve greater heights and has already started the submission procedure with FilmFreeway as our Global Submission Partner.
Along with Short Films, Long Short Films and Short Documentaries, this year, Music Videos will also be eligible to submit creations.
We thank all who have been associated with IKSFF for making it a success. We envision seeing IKSFF at a new height. Please be with us and help IKSFF achieve new milestones. Your support is highly anticipated.
We will screen all selected films virtually and also send ‘selection laurel’ to the filmmakers by mail. Then from the selected films, five will be nominated for each award category.
These nominated films will again get the ‘laurel of nomination’ and will also honor them on our website and social media pages/IDs.
The award winners of these nominated films will be declared. There will be 25 Nomination Awards Categories and some Hon’ble Mentions too. They are as follows:
1. BEST SHORT FILM
2. BEST LONG SHORT FILM
3. BEST INDIAN SHORT FILM
4. BEST BENGALI SHORT FILM
5. BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
6. BEST LGBTQ SHORT FILM
7. BEST ENVIRONMENTAL SHORT FILM
8. BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
9. BEST DIRECTOR (SHORT FILM / LONG SHORT FILM)
10. BEST DIRECTOR (DOCUMENTARY)
11. BEST BENGALI DIRECTOR
12. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER
13. BEST EDITOR
14. BEST BACKGROUND SCORE MUSIC
15. BEST ACTOR
16. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
17. BEST CHILD ACTOR
18. BEST BENGALI ACTOR (LONG AND SHORT FILM)
19. BEST MUSIC VIDEO
20. BEST SINGER (MUSIC VIDEO)
21. BEST LYRICIST (MUSIC VIDEO)
22. BEST PSA
23. BEST COMMERCIAL/ADVERTISEMENT
24. BEST DIRECTOR (ADVERTISEMENT/COMMERCIAL)
25. BEST CONCEPT
26. BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR
Special and Prestigious Award
1. Lifetime Achievement Award
2. Late Jiban Guha Memorial Award
3. IKSFF Bengal Cine Icon Award 2025
Note: Eligibility for Nomination and award is Subject to at least 5 Submissions in that specific category.
The winning films will get a ‘winner laurel’, a certificate, and a medal from us. We will also conduct a special offline screening in our city for award-winning films. All these award-winning films will get Laurel, Certificate, Medal (or Memento), and social media promotion.
The trophy/Medal/Certificate (Hard Copy) for the winners will be sent through courier/post. Any postage charges, duties, and fees will be covered by the recipient. The festival organizers will not be liable for such expenses. However, the digital copy of the award and laurels will be emailed to the winners.
Kindly Note, The films will be screened either online or offline or on both platforms. Kindly note, all Selected/Nominated/Awarded films may not be screened during the physical screening due to time constrain. The choice of the festival committee will be the final in this regard.