Overview
- The festival runs November 6–13 across 21 venues, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurating the edition at Dhano Dhanyo Auditorium before the evening screening.
- Organisers selected 215 films from 39 countries, including 185 features and 30 shorts, with 19 Polish titles anchoring the focus-country showcase.
- Ramesh Sippy will speak on November 7 for the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture, and a newly restored 4K Ray film has a special screening on November 8.
- The programme adds the ‘Unheard India’ strand for films in lesser-spoken Indian languages, spotlights environmental themes with four titles, and rebrands Cine Adda as ‘Gane Gane Cinema.’
- Fourteen films enter the international competition for the Royal Bengal Tiger, alongside contests for Indian language films and Asian selections conferring the Hiralal Sen Memorial, FIPRESCI and NETPAC awards.