ViBGYOR Film Festival is an international short and documentary film festival held annually in
Thrissur
Thrissur (), formerly Trichur, also known by its historical name Thrissivaperur, is a city and the headquarters of the Thrissur district in Kerala, India. It is the third largest urban agglomeration in Kerala after Kochi and Kozhikode, and t ...
City in
Kerala
Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
state of
India
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. ViBGYOR Film Festival is organised by ViBGYOR Film collective, a coalition of Chetana Media Institute, Nottam Traveling Film Festival, Navachitra Film Society, Visual Search, Moving Republic, Cense, GAIA, with the support of
Thrissur Municipal Corporation
The Thrissur Municipal Corporation is the civic body that governs the Thrissur city in Kerala, India. It is the third largest city Corporation in the state of Kerala by area and fourth largest in population. Established as a Municipality since 19 ...
, Jilla Panchayath, Federation of Film Societies of India, Kerala Chalachitra Academy, Information & Public Relations, ActionAid India, ICCO-South Asia and other various Film Societies.
Film Spectrum
The ViBGYOR Film Festival is the largest alternate film festival in
South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical
Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth descr ...
. It is a five-day-long film festival held every year at the
Sangeetha Nataka Akademy
Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy is located in Thrissur city, of Kerala, in India. It was established on 26 April 1958, inaugurated by then Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The academy started a cultural centre at the Bahrain Kerala ...
Campus in, Thrissur. ''Celebrating Identities and Diversities'' is the central theme of ViBGYOR. VIBGYOR have 3 type film packages as listed blow
* Focus of the year package with different topics each year
* ViBGYOR Spectrum package divided into following seven sub categories
** Identities
** Rights
** Environment and Developmentalism
** Nation state
** Gender and Sexuality
** Fundamentalism V/s Diversity
** Culture and Media
* Kerala Spectrum Package for films from Kerala
Genres
Animation, Documentary, Experimental, Music Video and Short films.
Event history
* First Edition: February 2006
* Second Edition: May 2007
* Third Edition: February 2008
* Fourth edition: February 2009
* Fifth edition: February 2010
* Sixth edition: January 2011
* Seventh Edition: February 2012
* Eighth Edition: February 2013
* Ninth Edition: February 2014
* Tenth Edition: February 2015
* Eleventh Edition: April 2016
* Twelfth Edition: August 2017
* Thirteenth Edition: November 2019
Themes
* 2006: ‘Water'
* 2007: ‘Earth'
* 2008: ‘Energy'
* 2009: ‘Food Sovereignty'
* 2010: ‘State, Communal and Developmental Conflicts in South Asia'
* 2011: ‘Political Filmmaking and Media Activism in South Asia'
* 2012: 'South Asia: Lives and Livelihood'
* 2013: 'Stolen Democracies'
* 2014: 'Gender Justice’
* 2015: 'Green Growth'
* 2016: 'Celebrating Cultural Diversity'
* 2017: 'Dissent'
* 2019: 'Rebooting :New India'
Films screened
* Fragments of the past
* Maruvili
References
External links
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Film festivals in Kerala
Documentary film festivals in India
Short film festivals in India
Malayalam cinema
Festivals in Thrissur district
Culture of Thrissur
2006 establishments in Kerala
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