People's Film Collective

11/09/2025

People's Film Collective is delighted to share that the next stop for the Travelling KPFF is with the Indian Alliance Paris on 20th September 2025 in Paris, where Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh's film Writing with Fire will be screened.

Please spread the word!

Also, a reminder to friends in Canada that the concluding two days of the ongoing TKPFF screenings at Surrey are on the coming weekend (Sept 13&14)

10/09/2025

FILM WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE FOR PALESTINE! PLEDGE TO END COMPLICITY

A call to fellow filmmakers, producers, actors, programmers, film critics

As filmmakers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognize the power of cinema to shape perceptions. In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.

The world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, has ruled that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, and that Israel’s occupation and apartheid against Palestinians are unlawful. Standing for equality, justice, and freedom for all people is a profound moral duty that none of us can ignore. So too, we must speak out now against the harm done to the Palestinian people.

We answer the call of Palestinian filmmakers, who have urged the international film industry to refuse silence, racism, and dehumanization, as well as to 'do everything humanly possible' to end complicity in their oppression.
Inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid who refused to screen their films in apartheid South Africa, we pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions—including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies—that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

* Examples of complicity include whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.

If you are a film worker you can join more than 8,000 others by signing the pledge by clicking the button below. It may take a few hours for names to be added.

Please go through and consider pledging here: https://filmworkersforpalestine.org/

07/09/2025

People's Film Collective is delighted to share about a very special set of Travelling KPFF screenings, spread over two weekends, in Surrey, Canada, happening now, organised by the absolutely wonderful comrades of the Society for Working Class South Asian Diasporas.

Please share with friends in Surrey. Long live people's cinema!

30/08/2025

Human flow: South-asian films on migration was a programming and screening we did on invitation from the School of Social Sciences at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. With the "global village" blitz of the early 1990 LPG era now morphed beyond recognition into an ubiquitous "immigrants/migrants= termites" equation of the 2020s, the migrant labour force of the Global South bears the most brutal brunt of global finance capital led world order.

It was in this context that five films were screened, which brought out a multitude of workers' perspectives on inter-state and cross-border migrations. Bare Trees in the Mist (by Rajan Kathet), Wet Blue Tarpaulin/Bhija Neel Terpal (by Anunay Barbhuiya),
Firefly/Junkiri (by Prince Prasad), Lakshmi (by Harold Anthony Paulson) and No Way Out (by Shekh Al-Mamun) were screened to an intensely engaged young audience, and were followed by conversations.

To invite Travelling KPFF to your campus or neighbourhood, do write to us at [email protected]

25/08/2025

The CALL FOR ENTRIES for the 12th Kolkata People's Film Festival 2026 is open. Submit your film now.

14/08/2025

The call for entries for the Kolkata People's Film Festival is open. For submission and to check out the terms and eligibility, please visit: https://filmfreeway.com/KolkataPeoplesFilmFestival

Please share widely.

14/08/2025

Tomorrow (15th August) at 10am sharp! Please take seats 15 mins prior.

11/08/2025

8th Frames of Freedom Film Festival 2025, Teaser / 15th Aug

11/08/2025

Glimpses of the Travelling KPFF film screenings at Hyderabad yesterday! Despite heavy rains, an enthusiastic audience turned up for the screenings. The films sparked intense conversations! With this, we conclude the monsoon film festivals in Andhra and Telengana! Until next year!

Watch this space for news of upcoming stops for the . If you wish to host screenings in your city or campus, write to us!

10/08/2025

Get a glimpse into the BURNING EARTH, WAGING PEACE: 8TH FRAMES OF FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL coming to Uttam Mancha, Hazra on 15 AUGUST from 10 am to 9 pm
Frames of Freedom Film Festival 2025

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