SCIFF 2025 India: School Cinema International Film Festival 2025 will be held in schools across the country from 14 to 30 November. More than 100 films from 25 countries will be shown in this festival. Know what it is and what children will learn from it.
School Cinema International Film Festival 2025: This year, children are going to get a special gift on Children’s Day 2025 in schools across the country. School Cinema International Film Festival (SCIFF 2025) will be organized in government and private schools of the country from 14th November i.e. Children’s Day to 30th November. In this, children will be introduced to films from all over the world. More than 100 selected films from 25 countries including France, Spain, Germany, Kyrgyzstan and UAE will be shown in this festival. During the event, children in more than 40,000 government and 1,000 private schools will get to experience world cinema.
What is SCIFF and what is its purpose?
SCIFF (School Cinema International Film Festival) is an international film festival that gives children a new perspective to learn, understand and think through cinema. According to Syed Sultan Ahmed, Festival Director and Founder of LXL Ideas, SCIFF started with a very simple but strong thought that cinema should not be limited to just the elite class or film festivals, but should reach every child. Movies are not just entertainment but a learning tool that gives children a new way of seeing, feeling and thinking. According to him, now any school in India can organize its own film festival through SCIFF and bring the world’s best stories straight to the classroom for children.
The objective of the festival matches with NEP 2020.
According to Syed Sultan Ahmed, in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, emphasis has also been laid on creative learning and education through various mediums, in which cinema has also been considered an important tool. According to him, through SCIFF we want to create a generation that watches films intelligently, learns with curiosity and expresses itself with sensitivity. Every frame becomes a classroom and every story teaches a lesson of life.
SCIFF gets support from film festivals around the world
SCIFF 2025 is also getting great recognition at the international level. Global festivals such as Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France), AniMela Festival (India), Giffoni Film Festival (Italy) and ZERO PLUS International Film Festival (Russia) have supported SCIFF. Apart from this, France and Spain are also associated as partners.
A new way of learning with the WATCH, LEARN, MAKE framework through SCIFF
SCIFF works on the WATCH, LEARN, MAKE framework to engage children with cinema. In which-
WATCH Cinema: Schools are transformed into mini theatres, where age-appropriate films are shown for children to inspire thought and conversation.
LEARN CINEMA: Children are taught behind-the-scenes lessons on filmmaking, such as workshops on scriptwriting, camera, sound and editing. Additionally, film education is also imparted to remote students through online masterclasses.
MAKE Cinema: In this, students showcase their creativity by making their own films and also get a chance to be a part of the youth jury in next year’s festival.
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The festival has reached millions of children so far
Last year, SCIFF connected over 23,000 schools and over 1 lakh students. Started in 2017, the festival has so far reached out to more than 10 million (1 crore) children and more than 60,000 schools. Earlier it was known as International Kids Film Festival (IKFF). It has now become a platform that combines art, education and social understanding.
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