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Smita Patil Documentary and Short Film Festival The aim of the festival is to showcase short and documentaries from across the world and the storytellers.

Smita Patil International Film Festival is growing consistently since it started in 2012. A festival for a cause was started in 2012 by Arogya Sena. To date it has been successful in attracting the audience and the storytellers. All the proceedings of the festival will go to Arogya Sena’s Disaster Relief Management Fund. To know more about Arogya Sena Please visit http://arogyasena.org

Join us for a carefully curated selection of some of the finest short films from around the world! Stories that challeng...
09/01/2026

Join us for a carefully curated selection of some of the finest short films from around the world! Stories that challenge, move, and stay with you.

📍 National Film Archive of India (NFAI), Pune
📅 10–11 January 2026
⏰ 9 AM – 6 PM
🎟 Free Entry

We are celebrating powerful voices, fearless storytelling, and the enduring legacy of Smita Patil.

See you at the National Film Archives archive.



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07/01/2026

ITS SCREENING TIME

Three days to go! Don’t miss this excellent line-up.

Watch the best of shorts from across the globe at 12th SPIFF
10-11 January


07/01/2026

Explores painter Francis Newton Souza’s raw interrogations of faith, flesh, and form: sacred and sensual, the maternal figure as god and ghost, nudity as rebellion, nature as cradle and chaos. Drawing from his essays and formative years in Goa, the film examines vulnerability, primal energy, and internal conflict.

Watch Ruptured Lines by Harshil Bhanushali at the 12th SPIFF

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07/01/2026

Chezan and Rumi have gone camping in the Sahyadris. They set off into the woods, engrossed in a fun conversation about each other’s zany secrets. But with every twist of the trail, many hidden truths come to the fore. The conversation soon catches a sinister drift. Will they accept each other after knowing who they really are?

Watch The Tent by Aditya Sane at the 12th SPIFF

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07/01/2026

On the night of Rakshabandhan, debt-ridden Lakshminarayan secretly returns home to reunite with his sister and family, while the threat of moneylenders looms large over the reunion.

Watch Guest For A Day by Rohit Patidar at the 12th SPIFF

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06/01/2026

A wintry poem about the Nordic nature. The sun moves low, days get shorter, birds fly south, and porcelain animals hide from freezing snow. Only a small porcelain girl wanders the abandoned landscape with no way out.

Watch On Weary Wings Go By by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg at the 12th SPIFF

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06/01/2026

In a quiet Maharashtrian village, Janardan, a halgi player, inherits a family tradition he no longer believes in. For generations, his family has lived off the rhythm of the drum, but for him every beat carries caste, shame, and suffocation. As events push him away from the halgi, his silence grows louder, until destiny pulls him back.

Watch Halgi by Rohit Ravindra Jadhav at the 12th SPIFF

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05/01/2026

A documentary/fiction exploring a young man’s intimate relationship with the Internet. In the absence of a father figure, he turns to Google as an unexpected mentor. From learning everyday tasks like shaving to deeper knowledge, the algorithm blurs the boundaries between real and virtual.

Watch No God no Father by Paul Kermarec at the 12th SPIFF

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05/01/2026

Two brothers return to the island of their childhood, where buried secrets and heavy tensions force them to confront a dark past that connects them.

Watch I'm Glad You're Dead Now by Tawfeek Barhom at the 12th SPIFF

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05/01/2026

A married man's unexpected bodily reaction, at the wrong time and in the wrong place, plunges him into a midlife crisis, forcing him to confront his identity and desires.

Watch A Thing about Kashem by Bijon Imtiaz at the 12th SPIFF

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Address

Arogya Sena National Head Quarters, 10, Sanas Plaza, Bajirao Road
Pune
411002

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm

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