Bringing world cinema to film lovers in the city

Four out of five films to be screened in the fest are new and have not been screened anywhere else. In ICAF, we try not to repeat films. Made in Hungaria (2009), Swing (2014), Just Sex And Nothing Else (2005), Heavenly Shift (2013) and Freedom Flight (2012) are the films to be screened at Russian Centre of Science and Culture from March 28 to 31. I personally received the movies from the Hungarian Information Culture Centre in New Delhi as I do for other festivals. 

Every country conducts them and some cities are known for popular international film festivals. We wanted to make Chennai one of them and started ICAF in a humble way in 2003. The idea is to initiate people to parallel cinema and showcase the technical excellence of film making in other countries to our aspiring filmmakers and cinematographers. From 63 movies from 57 countries to our first Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF), the number grew to 165 films from 57 countries for the 13th CIFF held in December 2015. 

We are beginning April with a Finland film festival, which will be followed by screening of Italian classics. We also have plans to hold a Latin American film festival. The next big event will be European Union film fest, scheduled from June 6 to 17. We have decided to approach the government to screen movies at the renovated Kalaivanar Arangam too.