NEZ International Film Festival

12th NEZ International Film Festival (NIFF)

25th to 28th March , 2027

The NEZ International Film Festival (NIFF) showcases the best of world cinema across Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries, Cinema on Environment, Smart Phone Cinema and Ad Films. As a champion of independent cinema and visionary storytelling, NIFF provides a powerful global platform to spotlight pure, undiscovered talent.

Every year, NIFF hosts offline screenings, filmmaker interactions, and press meets, making it a vibrant cultural destination. The festival proudly presents prestigious honors including the NIFF Icon Award, Golden Director Award, B.N. Sirkar Award for Producer, Hiralal Sen Award for Director, Fatma Begam Award for female Film Director and Infinity Vista Award for Best Film and awards to filmmakers in diverse categories.

Now entering its 11th year, NIFF stands as a dynamic umbrella of niche festivals—an immersive visual carnival celebrating the true essence of cinema.

NEZ stands for simplicity of life and existence. NEZ is not a corporate, nor an NGO; in fact no standard term can describe NEZ. It simply is a platform for beings in this planet to come forward, and come together and explore their collective talents for the progress of the world and beyond. We have long enough thought about espousing our cause and ours alone. Now we think together. It is a platform to promote excellence in Education, Arts, Literature, Films, Medicine, Science, Research, Community Service etc. The philosophy at NEZ is very simple. We share collective fate. We seek new thought patterns that shall shape this world and the universe in times to come.
NEZ International Film Festival (NIFF) stands for best of world cinemas in the categories of Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries Films and Ad Films. A platform of NIFF is meant for bringing undiscovered pure talents before a larger audience of the world.

NIFF is an umbrella; it is a conglomeration of niche festivals under one category. We treat the entire event as a visual carnival. The purpose of the festival is to celebrate everything the visual medium of cinema has to offer. Our Categories;

1. Regular -- Feature Films, Short Films, Documentaries, Animation, Music Videos and Ad Films.

2. “The Smart Phone Cinema”
NIFF always Endeavour to create something new, something Path breaking. It strives to recognize and to reward challenging aspects of cinema in all its forms. To celebrate the impact of cinema in modern age, NIFF is proud to announce a complete new category from this year “The Smart Phone Cinema”. We would be accepting movies in The Student Category and The Professional Category. The movie has to be a minimum of 4 minutes and maximum of 15 minutes. Every entry has to be accompanied by shooting Stills, substantiating the movie was indeed shot using the smart phone.

3. NIFF GREENS
That which is Paramount is also fragile. What better example we can have of this fact other than the Planets Eco System or the Environment. Sadly the most Paramount things behind the survival of humans are also most abused by the same humans. We stand at a dangerous point. Our Abuse of the Planet’s Environment is leading us to sure extinction. We need to raise awareness of that. Here at NIFF, we understand the Issue so much that we have created a separate category under the main festival Titled “NIFF GREENS”. It will showcase, any movie, shorts feature or documentary that highlights the issue of Environment.