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The Buddha International Film Festival (8)

Deadlines

13 Jan 2025
Call for entries

26 Mar 2025
Early deadline

16 Jul 2025
Standard deadline

26 Aug 2025
Late deadline

16 Sep 2025
Extended deadline

2
mths

21 Sep 2025
Notification date

28 Nov 2025
29 Sep 2025

Address

Aditya, Opp Euro Kids, Vishalnagar, New DP Road, Pimple Nilakh, 411027, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Festival description

Short film festival 59'<

Feature film festival >60' 240'<

Festival requirements

Film festival

Fiction

Documentary

Animation

Fantastic

Terror

Experimental

Music Video

Other

Any Genre

Any Theme

Has submission fees

International Festival

Physical Location

Production date: Any

Production countries: Any

Shooting countries: Any

Director nationalities: Any

Debut Films

School projects

Short Films 59'<

Feature Films >60' 240'<

Any language

Subtitles
English

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Festival description (Edition: 8)

Festival start: 28 November 2025 Festival end: 29 September 2025

THE BUDDHA International Film Festival's main objective is to provide the opportunity for filmmakers from all over the world to excel, and to have the best work selected and showcased in a celebration of cinema, as well as to give filmmakers a platform to network amongst fellow professionals and cinematic artists.

Buddha Fest / TBIFF is looking forward to fostering these relationships and to helping extraordinary filmmakers get their projects seen by global audiences. TBIFF unites cinematic, cultural, educational more over Inspirational objectives by presenting its film discoveries.

The TBIFF is dedicated to showcasing new and innovative films while fostering the next generation of filmmakers. It is a strong advocate for social change, and encourages cultural diversity and understanding between nations. It strives to foster the movie art of all continents by stimulating the development of quality cinema and promoting meetings between cinema professionals from around the world.

The BUDDHA International Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the spirit, passion, and skill of the best new filmmakers from around the world for audiences around the world.

We are also including and actively supporting not only the finest examples of classic moviemaking, but works that are experimental, breaking ground in new non-narrative forms and crossing over into the video arts. All films will be reviewed as they are submitted, and the best in each category will be chosen to screen at the festival. A jury of industry professionals will then view the finalists and choose the winning selections.

Filmmakers planning on attending should notify the film festival as soon as possible, so their names may be listed in the scheduled program at the venue where their film will be shown.

Prizes and qualifications

AWARDS
WINNERS In the following categories:

SHORT FILM

BEST SHORT FILM –

01

02.

03.
BEST DIRECTION –

01.

02.

03.
BEST ACTING - (Male)

01.

02.

BEST ACTING - (Female)

01.

02.
BEST SCREENPLAY –

01.

02.

03.
BEST CONCEPT AWARD–

01.

02.

03.
BEST EDITING –

01.

02.

03.

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY –

01.

02.

03.
DOCUMENTARY

BEST DOCUMENTARY –

01.

02.

03.

BEST DIRECTION –

01.

02.

03.

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM –

01.

02.

03.

BEST DIRECTION –

01.

02.

03.
BEST SCREENPLAY –

01.

02.

03.

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM –

01.

02.

03.

BEST DIRECTION -

01.

02.

03.

BEST CONCEPT -

01.

02.

03.

BEST MUSIC VIDEO -

01.

02.

03.

BEST WEB SERIES -

01.

02.

03.
BEST SCREENPLAY

01.

02.

03.

BEST SMARTPHONE SHORT -

01.

02.

03.

BEST MULTIMEDIA AWARD -

01.

02.

03.

BEST TRAILER AWARD-

01.

02.

03.

BEST AD FILM -

01.

02.

03.

Special Jury Awards -
Buddha Global Leadership Prize -
Certification of Excellence - Great Work

Rules

RULES & REGULATIONS

TBIFF - The Buddha International Film Festival
To participate:

The Festival is open to filmmakers from all over the world.

The Film submitter should be an authorized person or an organization ; Film Director or Film Producer or Production Organization.

You can submit as many films as you wish.

The short films must have been made from the 1st January 2010 till the deadline for registration, and it is not a problem if they have been previously screened, shown on the Internet or in other festivals.

The films may be in Marathi, Hindi, English, or in any other language with English subtitles.

For the selection process are not necessary English subtitles but if your film is selected we will ask you English subtitles for the public screening.

The organization can use pieces from the selected films (10% maximum) to promote them and the festival.

Selected short films of TBIFF will become part of "other film festivals organized by us".

Competition Categories:

Short Films
Feature Films

Running time:
The short films upto 59 minutes,
The feature films should not be less than 1 hour and more than 4 hours

Format:
All of the submitted films can participate, no matter the format. The screening will be from a 1080p digital file (participants will be informed about the format needed for the screening with time enough).

Short Film

Short Films 59'<

Fee

-8%

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Early 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 26 Mar 25

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Experimental Short Film

Short Films 59'<

Fee

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Documentary

Short and Feature Films >50' 240'<

Fee

-8%

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Early 29$ 26.68$ 12.18$ 26 Mar 25

Standard 29$ 26.68$ 12.18$ 16 Jul 25

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Feature or Full Length

Animated Short Film

Short Films 59'<

Fee

-8%

PRO 58%

Early 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 26 Mar 25

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Music Video

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

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Early 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 26 Mar 25

Standard 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 16 Jul 25

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Web Series

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

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Early 29$ 26.68$ 12.18$ 26 Mar 25

Standard 29$ 26.68$ 12.18$ 16 Jul 25

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Television Series

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

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Ad Film / Spot

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

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Buddha Global Leadership Prize

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

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Early 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 26 Mar 25

Standard 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 16 Jul 25

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Submit your best work ( as a Filmmaker (DIRECTOR) (Submit Any 1 Project; Short Film or Feature Film or Music Video or Documentary or TV/Web Series or Experimental or Animated Short Film). "Buddha Global Leadership Prize" is awarded annually to extra-ordinary leaders in film-making field who perform their humane intentions and visions to address the problems of new age challenges with their more creative, harmonious & higher values of humanity. Filmmakers work should be global in aspiration or implication. their past present and future projects with HUMANE GLOBAL VISIONS will be considered. We will select many filmmakers as "NOMINATED" and among-st them 4 GLOBAL WINNERS for this Prize. We only provide Certification of Buddha Global Leadership Prize to winners. As this is our global social initiative to recognize and empower the global visionary filmmakers. "Buddha" (Creativity, Harmony, Humanity)

SmartPhone (Mobile) Shorts

Short Films 59'<

Fee

-8%

PRO 58%

Early 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 26 Mar 25

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Trailer

Short Films 5'<

Fee

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Feature Film

Feature Films >60' 240'<

Fee

-8%

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Special Jury Awards

Short and Feature Films

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All International Films with all genres and with all lengths and of any category are most Welcome in this Special Jury AWARD category but We don't Screen the films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to all National & International film-makers. You can win Special Jury Award in BEST DIRECTOR or BEST WRITER or BEST EDITOR or DOP or PICTURE or ACTOR/ACTRESS, BEST FEATURE FILM, DOCUMENTARY, SHORT FILM & Many other sections...

BEST FOREIGN Language FILM Awards

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

PRO 58%

Early 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 26 Mar 25

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All International Films with all genres and with all lengths are most Welcome in this film category but We don't Screen the films of this section, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, All International Films with any language like English or Spanish or German or French or Italian or any European, American, Gulf, African, Australian languages films are most welcome except Marathi, Hindi or all other Indian origin Languages. As it is our social initiative to give more strength to global film-makers.

Documentary Short Film

Short Films 59'<

Fee

-8%

PRO 58%

Early 29$ 26.68$ 12.18$ 26 Mar 25

Standard 29$ 26.68$ 12.18$ 16 Jul 25

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Special Jury Award - BEST DOCUMENTARY

Short and Feature Films

Fee

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All International & National Films with all genres and with all lengths and of any category are most Welcome in this BEST DOCUMENTARY (Screenplay or Story or Dialogues; any one) category but We don't Screen the films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to all National & International film-makers.

Special Jury Award - BEST FEATURE FILM

Feature Films >60' 240'<

Fee

-8%

PRO 58%

Early 9$ 8.28$ 3.78$ 26 Mar 25

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All International & National Feature Films with all genres and with all lengths and of any category are most Welcome in this BEST FEATURE FILM category but We don't Screen the films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to all National & International film-makers, So, Many official selections, many winners...

Special Jury Award - BEST DIRECTOR

Short and Feature Films

Fee

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All International & National Films with all genres and with all lengths and of any category are most Welcome in this BEST DIRECTOR AWARD category but We don't Screen the films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to all National & International film-makers.

Special Jury Award - BEST SHORT FILM

Short Films 59'<

Fee

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All International & National Short Films with all genres and with all lengths are most Welcome in this category but We don't Screen the Short Films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to global film-makers, So, many official selections, many winners...

Special Jury Award - BEST PRODUCER

Short and Feature Films

Fee

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All International & National Films with all genres and with all lengths and of any category are most Welcome in this BEST PRODUCER category but We don't Screen the films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to all National & International film-makers.

Special Jury Award - BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR

Short and Feature Films

Fee

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All International & National Films with all genres and with all lengths and of any category are most Welcome in this BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR category but We don't Screen the films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to all National & International film-makers.

Special Jury Award - BEST ACTOR / ACTRESS

Short and Feature Films

Fee

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All International & National Films with all genres and with all lengths and of any category are most Welcome in this BEST ACTOR / ACTRESS category but We don't Screen the films in this category, As it is a Non-Screening Section. but all films are in competition. This category is a kind of Award Ceremony Film Festival Category. So more chances of Winning, As it is our social initiative to give more strength to all National & International film-makers.

Best Foreign Language Film

Short and Feature Films

Fee

-8%

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Best FOREIGN Language Short Film

Short and Feature Films

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Best Foreign Language Film Director

Short and Feature Films

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Best Foreign Language Animated Short Film

Short and Feature Films

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Best Foreign Filmmaker Award

Short and Feature Films

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