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The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) has announced the movie and events lineup for its 24th edition. Mammootty and Mohanlal’s much-awaited film, Patriot volition beryllium the opening movie astatine the festival which volition instrumentality spot from April 23-26, 2026.
The festival volition adjacent with Anusha Rizvi’s The Great Shamsuddin Family, which had streaming merchandise past year.
This year, IFFLA volition diagnostic 27 films, including 7 communicative features, 2 documentary features, and 18 abbreviated films. Countries represented see India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, France, the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and the USA.
The communicative features lineup includes awesome filmmaking debuts and grant winners, including, Seemab Gul’s Ghost School, Mahde Hasan’s Sand City, Tribeny Rai’sShape of Momo, Sarmad Khoosat’s Lali and Anuparna Roy’s Songs of Forgotten Trees, among others.
This year, the abbreviated movie programme features enactment by 13 pistillate directors, including the satellite premiere of Nihaarika Negi’s Tenfa, produced by Storiculture, which antecedently besides produced the acclaimed Humans successful the Loop (IFFLA 2025).
Shorts having their Los Angeles premieres astatine IFFLA aft gaining designation astatine large planetary movie festivals include, the Queer Palm award-winner astatine Cannes Critics’ Week, Bleat! by Ananth Subramaniam, a surreal drama astir a Malaysian-Tamil mates whose antheral goat turns retired to beryllium pregnant; the Cannes Special Mention victor Ali by Adnan Al Rajeev, a haunting Bangladeshi movie astir a young vocalist who indispensable fell his existent dependable for a accidental to determination to the city; and O’Sey Balamma by Raman Nimmala, a soulful communicative astir the unexpected enslaved betwixt a matriarch and her housekeeper arsenic they face solitude.
IFFLA 2026 is supported successful portion by the Joy of Sharing Foundation, Tarsadia Foundation, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and further sponsors.
