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{{Infobox film or theatre festival
| name = Pune International Film Festival
| logo =PIFF2018logo.png
| location = [[Pune]], India
| awards = [[Pune international film festival#Awards|Prabhat]], [[Pune international film festival#Awards|Sant Tukaram]]
| founded = 2002
| directors = [[Jabbar Patel]]
| website = {{url|https://www.piffindia.com/}}
}}

The '''Pune International Film Festival''' (also known as '''PIFF''') is an annual [[film festival]] held in [[Pune]], a city in [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. Open to general public, the films are screened at [[National Film Archive of India|NFAI]], [[INOX Leisure Limited|Inox]], City Pride, [[PVR Cinemas|PVR]] cinema halls, all located in Pune city. The films are screened in various formats like [[Digital Cinema Package|DCP]], [[Blu-ray|Blu-Ray]], [[DVD]], and 8/16/35mm [[Film stock|films]].

[[Jabbar Patel|Dr Jabbar Patel]] is the chairman and cirector and Samar Nakhate is creative director of festival.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.piffindia.com/about-Pune-Film-Foundation-PIFF.php|title=Pune International Film Festival|website=piffindia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-12}}</ref>

The festival commences on second Thursday and concludes on third Thursday of January. First Edition of PIFF was started in year 2002 and has been running annually except for 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.piffindia.com/about-Pune-Film-Foundation-PIFF.php|title=Pune International Film Festival|website=piffindia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-12}}</ref>

Latest PIFF was concluded on 16 January 2020 in its 18th edition. The theme of year was '[[Samyukta Maharashtra movement|60 Years of Foundation of Maharashtra]]'. It celebrated the centenary year of legends - [[Federico Fellini]], [[Kaifi Azmi]], [[Majrooh Sultanpuri]], [[Shamshad Begum]], and [[Ravi Shankar|Pandit Ravi Shankar]]. It also paid tribute to late [[Shriram Lagoo|Dr Sriram Lagoo]].

== Festival categories ==

*'''World Competition''' - Films released in earlier year compete for much coveted 'Prabhat Best International Film Award'
*'''Marathi Competition''' - Marathi films released in earlier year compete for 'Sant Tukaram Best International Marathi Film Award'
*'''Student Section''' - Short films from film schools in India like [[Film and Television Institute of India|FTII]] are screened.
*'''Global Cinema''' - Non competition category for cinema around the globe
*'''Country Focus''' - A handful of films from one country
*'''Theme Section''' - Films relating to theme of festival that year
*'''Retrospective''' - Retrospective on Indian and Foreign director/actor
*'''Indian Cinema''' - Offbeat films produced in India (usually excludes Bollywood and other Indian language mainstream films)
*'''Tribute Section''' - Tribute to film personalities passed that year
*'''Special Screening'''
*'''PIFF Workshops''' - Talks, Seminars, and Workshops on varied subjects by Film Industry persons.
*'''Student Animation Section''' - Short animation films for competition by students.This section was for few years.

== Awards ==
* [[Government of Maharashtra]] Prabhat Best International Film
* [[Government of Maharashtra]] Prabhat Best International Film Director
* [[Government of Maharashtra]] Sant Tukaram Best International [[Marathi language|Marathi]] Film<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.piffindia.com/cashawards.php|title=Pune International Film Festival|website=piffindia.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-12}}</ref>

== Sant Tukaram Best International Marathi Film Award winners ==

Since 2006, the [[Government of Maharashtra]] started awarding the best film in the Marathi competition section at the festival. An international jury watches the competing Marathi films to decide the winner. The award is named after the Marathi film [[Sant Tukaram (film)|Sant Tukaram]], the first Indian entry to be screened at the [[5th Venice International Film Festival]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+Award-winners
|-
! PIFF Edition !! Year !! Film !! Director
|-
|| 4 || 2006 || ''[[Dombivali Fast]]''||[[Nishikanth Kamat]]
|-
|| 5 || 2007 || ''[[Shevri]]''||[[Gajendra Ahire]]
|-
|| 6 || 2008 || ''[[Tingya]]''||[[Mangesh Hadawale]]
|-
|| 7 || 2009 || ''[[Gabhricha Paus]]''||[[Satish Manwar]]
|-
|| 8 || 2010 || ''[[Natarang]]''||[[Ravi Jadhav]]
|-
|| 9 || 2011 || ''[[Baboo Band Baaja]]''||Rajesh Pinjani
|-
|| 10 || 2012 || ''Ha Bharat Maza''||[[Sumitra Bhave]], Sunil Sukhtankar
|-
|| 11 || 2013 || ''[[Kaksparsh]]''||[[Mahesh Manjrekar]]
|-
|| 12 || 2014 || ''[[Fandry]]''||[[Nagraj Manjule]]
|-
|| 13 || 2015 || ''[[Elizabeth Ekadashi]]''||[[Paresh Mokashi]]
|-
|| 14 || 2016 || ''Ranga Patanga''||Prasad Namjoshi
|-
|15
|2017
|''Lathe Joshi''
|Mangesh Joshi
|-
|16
|2018
|''Pimpal''
|[[Gajendra Ahire]]
|-
|17
|2019
|''[[Chumbak]]''
|Sandeep Modi
|-
|18
|2020<ref>https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/18th-edition-of-piff-tunisian-family-drama-a-son-wins-best-film-award-6220529/</ref>
|''[[Anandi Gopal (film)|Anandi Gopal]]''
|Sameer Vidwans
|
|-
|19
|2021<ref>https://www.piffindia.com/results2021.php/</ref>
|''Happy My Son (Porga Majetay)''
|[[Makarand Mane]]
|}

== Prabhat International Award Winners ==
The festival started an International Competition section from 2005. The [[Government of Maharashtra]] started awarding the best film and the best director in the International Competition. An international jury panel decides the awards. Select awards are listed below.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Edition
! Year !! Award !! Film !! Director
|-
| rowspan="3" |3
| rowspan="3"| 2005 || Best Film || ''[[Yesterday (2004 film)|Yesterday]]''||[[Darrell Roodt]]
|-
| Jury Award || [[Earth and Ashes]] || [[Atiq Rahimi]]
|-
| Best Director || [[Dias de Santiago]] || [[Josué Méndez]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |4
| rowspan="2"| 2006 || Best Film || [[L'Enfant (film)|L'Enfant]] (The Child) || ''[[Dardenne brothers|Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne]]''
|-
| Best Director || [[L'Enfant (film)|L'Enfant]] (The Child) || ''[[Dardenne brothers|Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" |5
| rowspan="2"| 2007 || Best Film || [[The Old Barber]] || [[Hasi Chaolu]]
|-
| Best Director || ''[[The Axe (film)|The Axe]]'' || [[Costa-Gavras]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |6
| rowspan="2"| 2008 || Best Film || ''[[XXY (film)|XXY]]'' || [[Lucía Puenzo]]
|-
| Best Director || ''[[Sleepwalking Land (film)|Sleepwalking Land]]'' || [[Teresa Prata]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |7
| rowspan="2"| 2009 || Best Film || ''[[Lake Tahoe (film)|Lake Tahoe]]'' || [[Fernando Eimbcke]]
|-
| Best Director || [[Tulpan]] || [[Sergey Dvortsevoy]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |8
| rowspan="2"| 2010 || Best Film || [[White Lightnin']] || [[Dominic Murphy]]
|-
| Best Director || ''[[Kdopak by se vlka bál?|Who Is Afraid of the Wolf?]]'' || [[Maria Procházková]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |9
| rowspan="2"| 2011 || Best Film || ''[[Dooman River]]'' || [[Zhang Lu (director)|Zhang Lu]]
|-
| Best Director || ''[[Reverse (2009 film)|Reverse]]'' || [[Borys Lankosz]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |10
| rowspan="2"| 2012 || Best Film || ''[[If Not Us, Who?]]'' || [[Andres Veiel]]
|-
| Best Director || ''[[A Separation]]'' || [[Asghar Farhadi]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |11
| rowspan="2"| 2013 || Best Film || ''[[Barbara (2012 film)|Barbara]]'' || ''[[Christian Petzold (director)|Christian Petzold]]''
|-
| Best Director || [[The Delay]] || [[Rodrigo Plá]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |12
| rowspan="3"| 2014 || Best Film || [[Papusza]] || [[Krzysztof Krauze]] & [[Joanna Kos-Krauze]]
|-
| Best Director (shared)|| [[Papusza]] || [[Krzysztof Krauze]] & [[Joanna Kos-Krauze]]
|-
| Best Director (shared)|| ''[[I corpi estranei|Foreign Bodies]]'' || [[Mirko Locatelli]]
|-
| rowspan="3" |13
| rowspan="3"| 2015 || Best Film || ''[[Behavior (film)|Behaviour]]'' || [[Ernesto Daranas]]
|-
| Best Director (shared)|| ''[[Jako nikdy|Like Never Before]]'' || [[Zdeněk Tyc]]
|-
| Best Director (shared)|| ''[[Test (2014 film)|Test (Ispytanie)]]'' || [[Alexander Kott]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |14
| rowspan="2"| 2016 || Best Film || ''[[Immortal (2015 film)|Immortal]]'' || [[Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh]]
|-
| Best Director || ''[[Thithi, Kannada film|Thithi]]'' || [[Raam Reddy]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |15
| rowspan="2" |2017
|Best Film
|[[Lost in Munich]]
|[[Petr Zelenka]]
|-
|Best Director
|[[The Student (2016 film)|The Student]]
|[[Kirill Serebrennikov]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |16
| rowspan="2" |2018
|Best Film
|[[Free and Easy (2016 film)|Free and Easy]]
|[[Geng Jun]]
|-
|Best Director
|[[Zama (2017 film)|Zama]]
|[[Zama (2017 film)|Lucrecia Martel]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |17
| rowspan="2" |2019
|Best Film
|[[Girls of the Sun]]
|[[Eva Husson]]
|-
|Best Director
|[[A Translator]]
|[[Rodrigo Barriuso]] & [[Sebastian Barriuso]]
|-
| rowspan="2" |18
| rowspan="2" |2020<ref>https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/18th-edition-of-piff-tunisian-family-drama-a-son-wins-best-film-award-6220529/</ref>
|Best Film
|A Son (Bik Eneich: Un Fils)
|[[Mehdi Barsaoui]]
|-
|Best Director
|Supernova
|Bartosz Kruhlik
|-
| rowspan="2" |19
| rowspan="2" |2021<ref>https://www.piffindia.com/results2021.php</ref>
|Best Film
|[[Should the Wind Drop]] (French: Si le vent tombe)
|Nora Martirosyan
|-
|Best Director
|Barah By Barah
|Gaurav Madan
|}

== See also ==
* [[Marathi cinema]]
* [[Cinema of India]]
* [[Film festival]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.piffindia.com/ PIFF Official Website]

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