Overview
- The eighth edition of SCIFF is organised by LXL Ideas under festival director Syed Sultan Ahmed.
- Screenings will reach over 40,000 government and 1,000 private schools nationwide, featuring more than 103 films from 25 countries in over 20 languages.
- The festival opens on Children’s Day and runs through November 30 with classrooms turned into screening venues.
- The Watch, Learn, Make framework adds expert workshops, online masterclasses, and a student filmmaking competition with youth jury slots.
- Organisers report support from Annecy, AniMela, Giffoni, and ZERO PLUS, with country partners France and Spain, and cite prior reach of 23,000 schools last year and 10 million students since 2017.