The press meeting of the 27^th Kolkata International Film Festival took place in the presence of Arindam Sil, June Malia, Goutam Ghose, Sayantika Banerjee, Raj Chakraborty, and other eminent dignitaries.

The updated flyer containing changes in KIFF was unveiled at the press conference.

The inaugural program will take place at 4 pm at Nazrul Mancha on 25^th April. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate the film festival.

The inaugural film this year is Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri.  It will be shown on 25^th April at 5.30 pm at Rabindra Sadan.

The focus country is Finland. Compartment No 6, Tove, Ladies of Steel, Games People Play, A Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See the Titanic, The Other Side of Hope, and The Haven will be shown at the film festival.

KIFF is accredited by the International Federation of Film Producers Association, Belgium.

104 feature films and 59 short and documentary films were shortlisted from a total of 1698 films from 71 countries. A total of 163 films including 46 foreign films have been selected from 40 countries and will be shown at the festival.

The total number of shows is 200, and the number of venues is 10 (Nandan-1, Nandan-2, Nandan-3, Rabindra Sadan, Sisir Mancha, Conference Hall, Kolkata Information Center, Chalachitra Satabarsha Bhavan, Rabindra Okakura Bhavan, Nazrul Tirtha I, and Nazrul Tirtha II.

There are 59 films in the competition section.

The Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture will be delivered by renowned filmmaker Shoojit Sircar on 26^th April at Sisir Mancha.

The birth centenary of Satyajit Ray will be celebrated by felicitating and honoring veteran artists and senior technicians who have worked with the legend in his films. The event is titled Satyajit-er Shilpira and will take place at Rabindra Sadan on 1^st May 2022 at 3 pm.

The centenary tribute will be paid to Satyajit Ray, Miklos Jancso, and Chidananda Dasgupta.

A special tribute will be paid to Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Dilip Kumar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Claude Carriere, Swatilekha Sengupta, and Sumitra Bhave.

There will be exhibitions on the life and works of Satyajit Ray at Nandan Foyer and Nazrul Tirtha, New Town. Exhibitions at Gaganendra Pradarshashala 1^st floor and ground floor on Special Tribute to Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Lata Mangeshkar, Dilip Kumar, Bappi Lahiri, Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, Swatilekha Sengupta, Abhishek Chatterjee, and Sumitra Bhave will be inaugurated.

Cine Adda which has been organized since 25^th KIFF will be held at Ektara Mancha in Nandan-Rabindra Sadan complex from 27^th to 30^th April, 6 pm onwards.

The closing ceremony will be on 1^st May, at 6 pm at Rabindra Sadan.

Priyanka Dutta