About Us

ALPAVIRAMA ( a comma in Sanskrit ) is a biennial International Youth Film Festival of short films and Documentaries organized by the Film and Video discipline at NID Ahmedabad since 2011. The festival celebrates short films ( under 30min) by young filmmakers( below 30 yr of age) including students filmmakers.

The 6th edition of the festival was scheduled from 7-12 November 2022. The theme for the year was an eye for change: looking at the change in recent times in filmmaking and film viewing through the eyes of young filmmakers.

We aim to establish connections between young people from across the world as a way to build solidarity in this post-pandemic world, as a meaningful evolution from the previous Alpavirama’s focus on Lockdown Stories.

We hope to nurture and develop a practice around films and filmmaking that encourages young people to experiment with the audio-visual as a form both in the fiction and non-fiction genres. We look forward to receiving your works and taking a pause for reflection on our world!

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