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The Yellowstone International Film Festival (YIFF) has unveiled its lineup for the 2025 edition. The movie festival, which volition instrumentality spot successful Mumbai from November 13 to 20, volition showcase implicit 100 films, including Indian and planetary diagnostic films, abbreviated films, documentaries, queer cinema and abbreviated documentaries.
The entries volition beryllium evaluated by a sheet featuring filmmakers Nicholas Eliopoulos and Marta Cunningham, acclaimed histrion and vocalist Alison Fraser, and award-winning shaper Mariana Méndez Alejandre.
This year’s highlights see planetary titles making their Indian and Asian premieres, similar Caravan by Zuzana Kirchnerová, Têtes Brûlées by Maja Ajmia Zellama, I’ve Seen All I Need To See by Zeshaan Younus, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day by Ivona Juka and Aisha Can’t Fly by Morad Mostafa. 100 Sunset by Kusang Kyirong, Thinestra by Nathan Hertz, and Aurora by Raintolk and Andres Maimik volition people their Asian premieres.
Notably, the movie festival volition besides observe the champion of Indian indie cinema, with titles specified arsenic Secret of a Mountain Serpent by Nidhi Saxena, Chewing Gum by Abhay Sharma, and Kaisi Yeh Paheli by Ananyabrata Chakravorty.
In the documentary segment, YIFF 2025 volition surface titles specified arsenic Dalit Subbaiah - Voice of the Rebels by Gridaran MKP, Saints and Warriors by Patrick Shannon, Arushi Nigam’s Dream Factory, and Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste by Manjeet Sarkar and Mike Noone, among others.
In a statement, Tushar Tyagi, Founder of the YIFF, said, cinema is 1 of the fewer creation forms that speaks a connection everyone understands. “This year’s lineup reflects that content and that movie has the powerfulness to link cultures, situation perspectives, and punctual america of our shared humanity,” helium added.
Anshika Singh, Festival Director, said, “We’ve curated a programme rooted successful merit and inclusivity, spotlighting films that seldom find theatrical abstraction owed to their form, scale, language, oregon politics. Our extremity is to make a antiauthoritarian level wherever under-seen films conscionable engaged audiences.”
YIFF 2025 volition beryllium held from November 13 to 20, with PVR Dynamix, Juhu, serving arsenic the main screening venue, on with Gaysi, Veda Kunba, and Veda Blackbox. Masterclasses and discussions volition beryllium held crossed the city.
Feature Film Selections
- Holy Rosita by Wannes Destoop (Belgium - Asian Premiere)
- Aurora by Rain Tolk, Andres Maimik (Estonia - Asian Premiere)
- Caravan by Zuzana Kirchnerová (France - Indian Premiere)
- A Mother, a Son, and a Murder by Ananyabrata Chakravorty (India - Asian Premiere)
- Thinestra by Nathan Hertz (United States - Asian Premiere)
- Chewing Gum by Abhay Sharma (India - Asian Premiere)
- Secret of a Mountain Serpent by Nidhi Saxena (India)
- I’ve Seen All I Need to See by Zeshaan Younus (United States - Indian Premiere)
- Sheness by Manuraj Dubey (India)
- 100 Sunset by Kunsang Kyirong (Canada - Asian Premiere)
- Têtes Brûlées by Maja Ajmia Zellama (Belgium - Indian Premiere)
- Aisha Can’t Fly Away by Morad Mostafa (Egypt - Indian Premiere)
- Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day by Ivona Junka (Croatia / Poland / Canada / Cyprus / Bosnia and Herzegovina - Indian Premiere)
- The Second Coming Act 1: The New for the Old by Jean Carlos Díaz Sepúlveda (Puerto Rico - Asian Premiere)
Feature Documentary Selections:
- My Missing Aunt — Juyeon Yang (Republic of Korea) — Indian Premiere
- Dalit Subbaiah - Voice of the Rebels — Gridaran MKP (India) — Indian Premiere
- Untouchable: Laughing Out Caste — Manjeet Sarkar, Mike Noone (India) — World Premiere
- Village of Bastards — Amritansh Shukla, Uday Thakur (India) — Asian Premiere
- Fear and Now — Liat Ron (United States) — Asian Premiere
- Trans and Pregnant — Ramon Te Wake (New Zealand)
- Saints and Warriors — Patrick Shannon (Canada) — Indian Premiere
- Negative Remorse — Shankar Goud (India)
- Dream Factory — Aarushi Nigam (India) — Asian Premiere
