LIFF-2024

Latur International Film Festival – 2024

A four-day Latur International Film Festival organised in Latur city of central Maharashtra .

From past two years the festival organized by the Vilasrao Deshmukh Foundation in collaboration with the Maharashtra Government, Pune Film Festival and Abhijaat Film Society at PVR Theatre.

Around 25 domestic and foreign films screened for free during the festival.
The opening film was “Blaga’s Lessons” (Bulgaria).

Two Marathi films, “Sthal” (directed by Jayant Somalkar) and “Shyamchi Aai” (directed by Sujay Dahake) too featured in the festival which concluded on February 18 with the film “A Sensitive Person” directed by Tomas Klein.

LIFF-2023

A three-day Latur international film festival .The festival was organised by Vilasrao Deshmukh Foundation in collaboration with Pune Film Foundation, Abhijaat Film Society and the state government with an aim to introduce world cinema to the local audience, held at Latur city of Maharashtra on 26 March 2023.

The festival  inaugurated  by former Maharashtra minister Amit Deshmukh. President of Pune Film Foundation and renowned director Jabbar Patel, former dean of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Samar Nakhate .

the festival began with the screening of Swedish director Tariq Saleh’s film ‘Boy From Heaven’. Three Marathi films – ‘Girki’ directed by Kavita Dater and Amit Sonawane, ‘Diary of Vinayak Pandit’ directed by Mayur Karambalikar and ‘Global Adgaon’ directed by Anil Salve  screened during the festival.AC

Films in other Indian languages, including ‘The Star is Moving’ (Tamil), ‘Soul of Silence’ (Assamese),

International films – ‘The Case’ (by director Nina Gauseva from Russia), ‘Sonne’ (by director Kurdvin Ayub from Austria), ‘Lailaj Brothers’ (by director Saeed Roussoi from Iran), ‘The Channel’ (by director Thierry Binshti from France, Belgium), ‘Lyra’ (by director Alison Miller from Ireland), ‘Habib’ (by director Benoit Mari from Belgium, France), ‘Divertimento’ (by director Marie Caistal from France), ‘Ritual ‘ (by director Hans Hervos from Belgium, Germany) ‘Broker’ (by director – Hirokju Korida from South Korea) were also part of the festival.