WELCOME TO THE KPFF 2025

The Kolkata People’s Film Festival (KPFF) is people-supported, independent and volunteer-led, showcasing contemporary political documentary and fiction cinema from India and Southasia. Sticking with the slogan of ‘People’s Cinema with People’s Support’ since 2013, KPFF—the festival sans sponsorship logos—is organized entirely on the strength of voluntary financial contributions from audiences and well-wishers. The rejection of any funding, sponsorship, collaboration or endorsement from government, corporate, CSR, NGO or other institutional sources, has ensured complete programmatic autonomy of KPFF.

The eleventh edition of KPFF will screen thirty-eight films featuring a wide range of compelling stories from India and Southasia, aiming to explore common themes of labour and migration, raging movements, cultural battles, caste, gender and ethnic struggles, resisting majoritarianism, erased histories and the ongoing fight against fascist and authoritarian regimes.

This year, we pay tribute to two extraordinary documentary filmmakers who departed untimely, leaving a gaping void in the political documentary space in India. In loving memory of Navroze Contractor and Tarun Bhartiya, KPFF 2025 will feature a small retrospective of their photography and films.

As we survive a near-complete stranglehold over commercial cinema and TV media spaces by the fascist regime at the bidding of corporate oligarchies, building and sustaining political screening spaces that nurture “cinema of the 99%” is the need of the day. We continue to imagine KPFF as a space for re-imaginings, resistance and counterculture.

We welcome you to KPFF 2025. From the screen to the streets, let us rage, resist and love!

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