International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
▪ The 55th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) happened in Panaji.
▪ Toxic won the Golden Peacock Award for Best Film for exploring adolescence and economic hardship.
▪ Toxic is the debut feature film by Lithuanian filmmaker Saulė Bliuvaitė.
▪ Bogdan Muresanu won the Best Director award for his Romanian tragicomedy The New YearThat Never Came.
▪ Australian director Phillip Noyce received the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to cinema.
