28 films, 25 languages, 80+ hours, 18 Female Directors
Chennai 19-28 2024
The European Union Film Festival celebrates the diversity and depth of European cinema and culture, featuring award-winning films from all 27 European Union countries. It offers a ‘Window to Europe’ to the audience and demonstrates the power of cinema to transcend boundaries and create shared experiences.
This year marks the 28th edition of the EU Film Festival. Rich in genres and themes, the films take the audience on a cinematic journey with stories that underline the crucial role of inter-generational and intercultural dialogue and celebrate the creative and cultural exchange between the EU and India.
The festival offers the best of outstanding European cinema from European Union countries and Ukraine, celebrating the most recent cinematic triumphs at Cannes, Tribeca, Tallinn, Venice, Berlin and San Sebastian, amongst others.
Apart from exploring the best of European cinema under one roof, the audience also have the opportunity to transcend boundaries and embark on a journey where imagination knows no bounds, and stories open a new world of possibilities.
In this edition, the festival displays the variety and complexity of European Union’s culture through innovative film programming, opening paths for fruitful people-to-people and cultural relationship with India. The EUFF, over the years, has become a familiar sharing space to highlight the variety and wealth of European cinematography with passionate Indian audiences.
The festival celebrates the love for cinema that both Europe and India share. With this, we welcome you to the 28th EU Film Festival.
Life is a real and metaphysical journey through the lands we explore, the people we meet, the stories we tell and the ones that are told to us.
Cinema too is a journey that we undertake together with people sitting next to us in a theatre or miles away. This ability to transcend borders, express the multi-sensorial possibility of exploring reality, of getting closer to other people and traveling into the mystery that binds our lives is what makes cinema a powerful medium.
This metaphorical journey is the main theme of the 28th edition of the European Union Film Festival –India, understood as the will for change and of the search for a path to reach the awareness that often individual freedom and happiness is inextricably connected to the freedom and happiness of others.
This year the festival will travel from New Delhi (1st to 10th December) to Chennai (19th to 28th January 2024) offering a gamut of specially curated award-winning films that showcase the richness, variety and the complexity of European culture.
Intimate tales reflect universal experiences, as the festival offers a ticket to travel into the heart of Europe. Showcasing diverse films from across the EU, plus Ukraine, the films, in multiple languages, include the work of 18 remarkable female directors.
The festival line-up offers evocative, innovative, independent and offbeat voices across genres such as drama, comedy, sci-fi, documentary, animation, among others. Through the stories, we’ll embark on a compelling journey that could bring us far from where we are but also push us into exploring the hidden angles of our souls, trying to overcome personal weakness, stereotypes and fears, while opening new perspectives.
-Veronica Flora and Valerio Caruso
Courtesy: EUFF team