All Lights India International Film festival (ALIIFF) is an annual film festival of India conducted in Hyderabad. It is usually conducted in December every year. The 4th edition was held from Dec 1–4, 2018 at PVR Inorbit Mall, Hyderabad. Popular Malayalam film actor and national award-winning director Balachandra Menon was the festival director of the 2018 edition.
History The first edition of ALIIFF was held in 2015 in Kochi, Kerala. The second and third editions were held at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad. The film festival was founded by Sohan Roy, Hollywood director of Indian origin and a media entrepreneur.
ALIIFF is part of the Indywood Film Carnival and has introduced some notable films such as Theeb which later went on to win the Oscar in Foreign Films category in 2015. Popular regional superstars such as Mohanlal, Kamal Hassan and Venkatesh have been patrons of the event in the past. The event is managed by the All Lights Film Society. Nisha Joseph aka Nisha Jose is the artistic director of ALIIFF.
The 2017 edition saw films as part of 6 competitive and 9 non-competitive categories. Every year, the festival awards the Golden Frame Award to the best film.
Veteran Film director and winner of Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award, Shyam Benegal was the festival director of the 2017 edition.
Competition categories
International Competition for Student Short Films International Competition for Short Films International Competition for Documentary Films International Competition for Indian Movies International Competition for Debut Director's Films (Features) International Competition for Feature Films Short Film Corner
Out of competition categories
Children Films Environmental and Sustainability Films
Award categories
Film Critics Circle of India Award for the Best Indian Movie NETPAC Award for The Best Asian Cinema Best Student Short Film Best Short Film Best Documentary Film Best Indywood Panorama Movie Best Debut Director's Film Best Feature Film
ALIIFF 2015—Golden Frame Award Winners + ALIIFF 2015—Golden Frame Award Winners Category Name Director Country Golden Frame Award for Best Short Film I Exist Radhika Prasadhi & Vivek Raju India Honorable Mention Award (Short Film) Till Jail Do Us Apart Mariana & Joserro Emmanuelli Puerto Honorable Mention Award (Short Film) Symmetry Ruben Van Leer Netherlands 1968 You're Human Like the Rest of Them B. S. Johnson UK Best Documentary and Documentary Feature Film 100 Mules Walking the Los Bruce Dickson USA 1970 Calcutta Louis Malle France Honorable Mention Award (Documentary and Documentary Feature Film) The Garden of Hope Laurence Guenoun Brazil Golden Frame Award for Best Indywood Panorama Scarabus Gérald Frydman Belgium 1973 Nirbashito Churni Ganguly India Golden Frame Award for Best Debut Feature Film My Life with A King Carlo Enciso Catu Philippines Honorable Mention Award (Debut Feature Film) Nekro Pinar Sinan Turkey Golden Frame Award for Best Feature Film Masaan Neeraj Ghaywan India Honorable Mention Award (Feature Film) Ben & Ara Nnegest Likke United States Golden Frame People Choice Award Seven Ravens Alice Nellis Czech Republic NETPAC Award for The Best Asian Cinema at ALIIFF Mina Walking Yosef Baraki Afghanistan
ALIIFF 2016—Golden Frame Award Winners
+ ALIIFF 2016—Golden Frame Award Winners Category Film Director Country Film Critics Circle of India Award For The Best Indian Movie Violin Player Bauddhayan Mukherji India NETPAC Award for the Best Asian Cinema Houra Gholamreza Sagharchiyan Iran Best Student Short Film Chaver Abhilash Vijayan India Best Student Short Film—Honorable Mention Valentina Max Kidd Germany Best Documentary Film—Winner The Great Transmission Pema Gellek United States Best Documentary Film—Honorable Mention Vanishing Island D.Dhanasumod India Best Documentary Film—Winner SMAJL Philipp Majer Germany Special Mention—Best Educational Film Take Over Jennifer Alphonsse India Best Short Film The School Shiva Kumar India Best Short Film - Honorable Mention Senior Teacher Sha Mo China Best Short Film—Honorable Mention Cancer 71 Abhishek Talukder India Best Indywood Panorama Movie Pathemari Salim Ahmed India Best Debut Director's Film 1st Sem Dexter Paglinawan Hemedez & Allan Michael Ibanez Philippines Best Feature Film Nise—The Heart of Madness Roberto Berliner Brazil Best Feature Film—Honorable Mention Laut Luisito Lagdameo Ignacio Philippines Best Feature Film—Honorable Mention Metamorphosis (Roopatharam) M.B. Padmakumar India People Choice Award Shankachil Goutam Gose India
ALIIFF 2017—Golden Frame Award Winners + ALIIFF 2017—Golden Frame Award WinnersCategoryFilmDirectorCountryBest Student Short FilmThe Loudest SilenceMarccela MorenoBrazilBest Short FilmTake the ReinsEmma BarrettUSAShort Film (Honorable Mention)ChudalaMaaria SayedIndiaBest DocumentaryIn Return: Just A BookShiny Jacob BenjaminIndiaBest Indywood Panorama FilmRailway ChildrenPrithvi KonanurIndiaNETPAC AwardHidden CornerJaicheng Jai DohutiaIndiaBest Debut DirectorApricot GrovesPouria Heidary OurehArmeniaDebut Director Film (Honorable Mention)2001: While Kubrick Was in SpaceGabriel Nicoli- Daniel Ortega (cinematography mention)ArgentinaBest Feature FilmSaawanFarhan AlamUSAFeature Film (Honorable Mention)Minnaminungu (Surabhi Lakshmi)Anil ThomasIndiaI.V. Sasi Memorial Golden Frame Award for the Best Indian Debut DirectorThe ForsakenJiju AntonyIndia
ALIIFF 2018—Golden Frame Award Winners + ALIIFF 2018—Golden Frame Award WinnersCategoryFilmDirectorCountryBest Indywood Panorama FilmTo LetChezhiyan RaIndiaNETPAC Award for the Best Asian FilmRunawayAbhishek SahaIndiaBest Debut DirectorAmirNima Eghlime IranDebut Director—Honorable Mention (Best Actress)RunawayActrees: Sudipta ChakrabortyIndiaDebut Director—Honorable Mention (Best Actor)Kupal Actor: Levon HaftvanIranBest Feature FilmOctavSerge Loan CelebidachiRomaniaBest Feature FilmPupaIndrasis AcharyaIndia
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