the biennial film festival in Auroville

The aim of the Auroville Film Festival is to connect with people and cultures within and beyond Auroville and to further the aspiration of human unity by showcasing films that develop the theme of human unity. We feature films that are created in and around Auroville, as well as international films that explore the theme of human unity.
festival dates fixed & the Human Soup poster

festival dates fixed & the Human Soup poster

We fixed the festival dates for September 18th – 22nd, 2013 And we received a wonderful poster submission by Marco Saroldi and Dominique Jacques, it’s called Human Soup.  
submissions are open

submissions are open

. submit your film in one of our four categories: 1. Films made by Aurovilians/residents of the bioregion and films shot in Auroville by guests of Auroville 2. Films made about Auroville and/or its bioregion 3. Films made by students of Auroville schools or students of schools in the bioregion...
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a dozen new posters

a dozen new posters

A hole dozen of new festival posters were created by Marco and Marie … Raja Ravi Varma remixed:
Folks in Auroville, have you made your film yet?

Folks in Auroville, have you made your film yet?

We survived December 21st, celebrated various birthdays including Auroville’s 45th just yesterday, and high season in Auroville is slowly starting to fade out, so we thought it’s about time to remind all you film loving people in Auroville of our Film Festival coming up in September this year and the fact that all films made...
Panorama of Contemporary Indian Cinema

Panorama of Contemporary Indian Cinema

   There will be a Film Festival for Contemporary Indian Cinema in Auroville next weekend, February 15, 16 and 17, presented by our partner Aurofilm in collaboration with DFF, Delhi.                   Friday 15 February: 5.00 pm     DIGANT (BOUNDLESS)   Directed by DNYANESH MOGHE          KONKANI / EST        1h.36’...
stop motion take 3

stop motion take 3

stop motion animation done by students of The Learning Community (TLC)l, Auroville. realized within a workshop of AVFF-EOP – Auroville Film Festival Educational Outreach Program workshop conducted by Tom Mo
stop motion take 2

stop motion take 2

stop motion animation done by 5th grade students of Deepanam School, Auroville. realized within a workshop of AVFF-EOP – Auroville Film Festival Educational Outreach Program workshop conducted by Tom Mo
stop motion take 1

stop motion take 1

stop motion animation done by 5th grade students of Transition School, Auroville. realized within a workshop of AVFF-EOP – Auroville Film Festival Educational Outreach Program workshop conducted by Tom Mo
AurovilleRadio - our acoustic media partner

AurovilleRadio – our acoustic media partner

From the beginning AurovilleRadio has been an important media partner. Besides reporting about the Auroville Film Festival before, during and after the actual festival week, conducting interviews with people involved and the festival audience, AurovilleRadio also contributes to the festival by organizing panel discussions and workshops.  
what the hack?

what the hack?

Before we even properly started with our relaunch, we got hacked by some big shot hackers usually attacking greedy big corporations… What the heck? Why us? We don’t even have any funds for our festival as yet… Which doesn’t mean it wont happen, don’t worry, just… Dear hackers, if you already spend time on our...
looking for films on human unity

looking for films on human unity

The Auroville Film Festival ’13 is looking for suggestions of films that develop the theme of human unity and have been produced from January 2010 onwards. As we all know, unity refers to that which is one and cannot be divided; associated with humanity it refers to all that is one with or all that...
deflowering the new website

deflowering the new website

finally we’re back online with our new film festival website, moving on and getting more and more ready for the 3rd Auroville Film Festival coming up sometime at the end of September 2013.