Festival Data:

• Established: 1999
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 40000
• Media Attendance: 115
• Accredited Industry Attendance: 10
• Total Number of Films Submitted: 150
• Total Number of Films Screened: 90
• Total Screenings: 150
• # of Shorts Screened: 2
• # of Features Screened: 88
• Accreditations: FIPRESCI

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

Osian’s-Cinefan is one of Asia’s leading film festivals devoted principally to Asia and the Arab world. Established in 1999 in New Delhi in July every year, the Festival enjoys an international reputation for the quality of films screened over nine days complemented by panel discussions, one major seminar each time, an Auction of Popular Culture and Film Memorabilia along with a number of exhibitions, the Talent Campus for budding young filmmakers from South Asia, and the presence and participation of film professionals from all over the world and all over India. It presents a Lifetime Achievement Award for distinguished contribution to writing on cinema – perhaps the only Festival in the world that recognises the role of the scriptwriter and the critic in the creation and the promotion of films.

Three competition sections – Asian & Arab Cinema, First Films from Asia, Indian Cinema - are judged by international juries and cash prizes awarded. Fipresci gives its own award as well. The regular sections are Cross-Cultural Encounters, Frescoes of Asian and Arab films, Indian Mosaic for the best of the previous year’s productions.