Filmsaaz is an international short

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...

began in 2008 by the University Film Club,

Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh Muslim University (abbreviated as AMU) is a Public University, public Central University (India), central university in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, which was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as the Muhammadan Anglo-Orie ...

. Until the fifth edition of the festival in 2012, it was a national-level competition, but beginning with the sixth edition in 2013, the festival was opened to international entries. Since its inception, the University's Kennedy Auditorium has been used as the festival's screening venue.

History

The film club was established in the 1973–74 academic session. Proposal was mooted with the University Grants Commission that film societies be established with the universities in India which was accepted and thus the film club was the outcome of such proposal. In 2013, after having conducted film workshop there, actor

Adil Hussain Adil Hussain () is an Indian actor who has worked in Indian cinema, including art house cinema and mainstream Bollywood, as well as international cinema, in films such as ''The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' and ''Life of Pi'' (both 2012). He rece ...

was granted a lifetime membership in the university's film club. A short film festival- ''Filmsaaz'' was conceived and begun in 2008 by Adil Hossain, Nabeel Rizvi, Hemant Yadav and Faisal Hasan. In 2013, under the secretary-ship of Arif Jwadder the 6th edition of the festival become international in scope. When first established, the festival was organized as a national short film festival with national and local categories but with its sixth installation, local categories were removed.

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{{Aligarh Muslim University Short film festivals in India Aligarh Muslim University Film festivals established in 2008