What to Watch at IFFI26 : The 200+ Film List

By Pickle  November 13, 2026

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From new Indian features and short films to world cinema, competition entries, documentaries, animation, restored classics and tributes, this alphabetical guide brings together 215 distinct films identified in the announced IFFI 2026 programme and the supplied curtain-raiser factsheet. Each film appears once, followed by its director or directors.

3 Weeks After – Miroslav Terzić
9 Temples to Heaven – Sompot Chidgasornpongse
17 – Kosara Mitic
1982 – Nguyen Hoang Diep
A Fading Man – Welf Reinhart
A Family – Mees Peijnenburg
A Few Days in the Sun – Mauro Mueller
Aadi Anant – Mahesh Limaye
Abhal-Vriksh – Santosh Davakhar
Afterimage – Andrzej Wajda
Al Baraneya – Ashgan El-Hamus
Amadeo and the Hypothetical New World – Brenda Lígia, Edu Felistoque
Amit Atal – Hitesh Shankar
And the Snow Was Falling – Andrei Egorov
Anesthesia – Jaro Vojtek
Aquí – Tiago Guedes
Arrested Memory – Sabu
Ashes and Diamonds – Andrzej Wajda
At Night – Beatrice Gibson
Atlantic Rhapsody – Zhong Kaifeng
Atonement – Reed Van Dyk
Attappadi – Vijeesh Mani
Baab – Nayla Al Khaja
Baapya – Samir Tewari
Baga: Tomorrow Belongs to No One – Ariff Zulkarnain
Banaras – Bharatbala Ganapathy
Baracoa – Luis Ernesto Doñas
Becoming – Leena Yadav
Bhakta Kannappa – Bapu
Birds on Ice – Sahil Shah
Bitter Christmas – Pedro Almodóvar
Bo Bo – Anastasia Kuzina
Call Me Queen – Emily Atef
Chalo Indian with Eric Ji: Mizoram – Rajdeep Choudhury
Chandoba – Nipun Dharmadhikari
Chennai Love Story – Ravi Varma Namburi
Cherry and Virgin – Masanao Kawajiri
Cherry Town – Herbert Rappaport
Chica Checa – Šimon Holý
Children Untold – Miwa Nishikawa
Chowringhee – Pinaki Bhushan Mukherjee
Chronovisor – Jack Auen and Kevin Walker
Come with Me – João Lameira
Congo Boy – Rafiki Fariala
Cotton – Rashid Malikov
Coward – Lukas Dhont
Demography Is Destiny – Kamakhya Narayan Singh; Anshuman Shekhar
Deool Band 2 – Pravin Vitthal Tarde
Dhurandhar – Aditya Dhar
Diane in the Loop – Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni
Diksha – Arun Kaul
Djinn Wedding – Ferit Karahan
Drag – Raviv Ullman, Greg Yagolnitzer
Dreaming of Serenada – Katrine Weber
Drumskin – Joaquín Cambre
Dust – Tsai Ming-liang
Echoes of the Last Shelter – Bharat Arora; Rajesh Bhatia
Ego Reach We All – Amartei Armar
Elephants in the Fog – Abinash Bikram Shah
Embers – Sun Aoqian
Erratics – Thomas Woodroffe
Everybody Digs Bill Evans – Grant Gee
Everytime – Sandra Wollner
Far From the Trees – Meritxell Colell Aparicio
Fatherland – Paweł Pawlikowski
Faya Dayi – Jessica Beshir
Forever Your Maternal Animal – Valentina Maurel
From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor – Wim Wenders
Fruit Gathering – Aung Phyoe
Furies – Rami Kodeih
Good Trip – Norris Wong, Wong Hoi
Ground Floor – Gábor Reisz
Hanuman Ansh – Vishal Chaturvedi
Hearing – Lê Bảo
Hijra – Shahad Ameen
Hold Onto Me – Myrsini Aristidou
I Grew an Inch When My Father Died – P. R. Monencillo Patindol
I Matter – Alina Șerban
In My Father’s Room – Maha Harada
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Don Siegel
Jaripeo – Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig
Jim Queen – Nicolas Athané, Marco Nguyen
Josephine – Beth de Araújo
Joy Boy: A Tribute to Julius Eastman – Mawena Yehouessi, Fallon Mayanja, Rob Jacobs, Anne Reijniers, Paul Shemisi, Victoire Karera Kampire
Kabhi Kabhie – Yash Chopra
Kabir Sir Ka Akhri Lesson – Sarfaraz
Kanal – Andrzej Wajda
Kantara: A Legend – Chapter 1 – Rishab Shetty
Kashmir Ki Kali – Shakti Samanta
Kathar Katha – Dhritisree Sarkar
Krishnavataram – Hardik Gajjar
La Chaleur – Stéphane Demoustier
Laalo: Krishna Sada Sahaayate – Ankit Bhupatbhai Sakhiya
Lady – Olive Nwosu
Lagaan – Ashutosh Gowariker
Light Pillar – Xu Zao
Like Any Other Mortal – María Molina Peiró
Look Back – Hirokazu Koreeda
Looking for Michael – Juana Macías
Magazine – Alexandra Pechman
Magic Atlas – Sun Xun
Man of Marble – Andrzej Wajda
Mana Shankara Vara Prasad Garu (Pandaga Ki Vastunnaru) – Anil Ravipudi
Marie Madeleine – Gessica Généus
Masayume – Nao Yoshigai
Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean – Barnaby Thompson
Mudhal Mariyadhai – Bharathiraja
Mudras. Dancing Invisible Threads – María Salgado Gispert
Mundhanai Mudichu – K. Bhagyaraj
Naqsh-e-Daur – Baba Tassaduq Hussain
New Home – Nikita Grushin
Nightborn – Hanna Bergholm
Nirmanjali: The Chandigarh of Maciej Nowicki – Suraj Kumar
Nobody’s Violence – Denis Côté
Nowhere to Lay My Eyes – Hong Sang-soo
Nuisance Bear – Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman
Nunkui – Verenice Benítez
Oasis – Jannis Lenz
Ohh My Dog – Amit Rai
Padma Nadir Majhi – Gautam Ghosh
Pagla Ghora – Sekhar Das
Paris, Paris – Isabelle Tollenaere
Paro: The Untold Story of Bride Slavery – Gajendra Ahire
Pili Channe – Anupama Sharadhi
Poultry Farm – Mohammadreza Ardalan
Pratyabartan – Samarpan Sengupta
Pray for Us – Daniel Monzón
Queen at Sea – Lance Hammer
Rahma – Faysal Soysal
Ramayana: Rise of a Legend (Part 1) – Nitesh Tiwari
Ray Gunn – Brad Bird
Red Carpet – Aimee Baruah
Ria – Arvin Belarmino
Roid – Mejbaur Rahman Sumon
Ruby-Cube – P. Sheshadri
Sadhi Manase – Bhalji Pendharkar
Safe Exit – Mohammed Hammad
Salvation – Emin Alper
Sarvam Maya – Akhil Sathyan
Save the God – Niraj Kumar Mishra
Scroll – Kannan S
Serpenti – Roberto de Paolis Maino
Sev Micchar – Muskan Asthana
Shame and Money – Visar Morina
Shat-Shat Atal – Atul Pandey
Shiksha – Amyth Patkar
Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki – Takashi Miike
Sidney Lumet’s Birthday – Raul Geidarov
Sing Geetham – Singeetham Srinivasa Rao
Skintown – Kieron J Walsh
Skylark – Narghiza Dotieva
Small Gods – Asher Rosen
Strawberries – Laïla Marrakchi
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Sunspots – Anton von Heiseler
Supporting Role – Ana Urushadze
Surjyamukhi – Antara G.G. Choudhury
Suzhou Quartet – Cai Chengjie
Switch Off – Sandeep Francis
Tago – Aleksandr Anisimov
Thaai Kizhavi – Sivakumar Murugesan
The Bad Son – Jaime Lorente
The Black Sea – Aladdin Mostafa
The Blood Countess – Ulrike Ottinger
The Clearing – Sabine Groenewegen
The Condor Daughter – Álvaro Olmos Torrico
The Cord – Darkhan Tulegenov
The Daughters of Abraham – Hanaël El Yousfi
The Dreamed Adventure – Valeska Grisebach
The Farm – Elif Eda
The Fortunate Isles – Helena Girón, Samuel Delgado
The Golden Age – Bérenger Thouin
The Great Grand Superhero Aliens Ka Aagman – Manish Saini
The Hug of Emptiness – Pradeep Kumar Shetty K
The Huntress – Suzanne Andrews Correa
The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond – Kamakhya Narayan Singh
The Mad Dog of Europe – Rubika Shah
The Meltdown – Manuela Martelli
The Promised Land – Andrzej Wajda
The Quiet Applause – Byun Sung-bin
The River Train – Lorenzo Ferro, Lucas A. Vignale
The Samurai and the Prisoner – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Sea Speaks His Name – Yosep Anggi Noen
The Shadow’s Edge – Larry Yang
The Sledge – Raja Shabir Mohd Khan
The State of Us – Ollie Gardner, Jake Harvey
The Trek – Meekaaeel Adam
The Unseen Holy River: Saraswati – Bhasker Vishwanathan
Thulabharam – A. Vincent
Tighi – Jeejivisha Kale
Titanic Ocean – Konstantina Kotzamani
To Be or Not to Be – Ernst Lubitsch
Trainspotting – Danny Boyle
Trinidad – Laura Alvea, José Ortuño
Tropical Fractals – Leonardo Pirondi
Uchronia – Fil Ieropoulos
Ulididdu Sampige Maatra – Abhishek
Ulya – Viesturs Kairišs
Until the Day Ends – Jelena Maksimović
Urum – Duyu Tabyo
Vanishing Tracks – Hamed Zolfaghari
Variations on a Theme – Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar
Visitation – Volker Schlöndorff
Vittorio De Sica – Staging Life – Francesco Zippel
Waking Hours – Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Waqt – Yash Chopra
We Are Aliens – Kohei Kadowaki
We Are All Strangers – Anthony Chen
We Are the Fruits of the Forest – Rithy Panh
Wild at Heart – David Lynch
Will You Still Be My Friend – Lu Po-Shun
Win – Praveen
Woman Unknown – May el-Toukhy
You Don’t Belong Here – Florin Şerban
Zejtune – Alex Camilleri