I am pleased to welcome you all at the newly opened Nutgrove Cinema and The Bridge
enterprise center to the 16th Indian Film Festival of Ireland 2025. This year the festival
is focusing on some documentaries from the Indian film industry. The festival is
openning with a feature film “Inn Galyon Mein” directed by Avinash Das who travels
from India to attend the festival. The closing film is Moha starring Javed Jafri a film by
Santosh Sivan. . Other important documentary films The mind that Matters. short films
Like Irish Baba, Cybershot, and Insusceptible and many more over the three days.
This year’s festival faced more challenges in selecting so many good films, in the short
category and documentary categories. But we finally selected the best in various Indian
languages.
As many of you know the IFFI has been established over the past fifteen years as
Ireland’s boutique film festival, introducing the world’s largest film industry, the Indian
cinema to the Irish audience. And a real potential for making Irish – Indian co production
films. The IFFI 2025 is delighted to reinvent and recreate its glorious structure, and will
have three distinct features; we shall be screening films, a live show during the gala
glamorous award night the next day, to honour the theme, PEACE IN THE WORLD:
MAKE FILMS NOT WAR.
Several Live Indian classical dancers are specially performing for the IFFI 2025, to
complement and celebrate the Indian dance art form incorporated in our films, such as
Kathak and Bharatnatyam an Indian classical dance form during the gala award
ceremony.
The Gala dinner, with Javed Jafri and other guests will take place a the Milltown Golf
Club. Please book you ticket €60 per person. Tickets on Event-bright.
We are now developing our Irish-Indian cross-over fiction and non-fiction films to be
made here and so creating an Irish-India film production corridor.
16th IFFI 2025 has been supported, like in previous years by RTE supporting the Arts,
Dun – Laoghaire County Council, and a few friends, advertisers and patrons.
I am delighted to bring you this very different festival this year. I sincerely thank all
sponsors, festival partners my supporter’s friends, and my festival team who made this
possible with their generous time and support.
Bindu Nair is very well known within the community through her volunteering as Master of Ceremony for various cultural and social events for Indian and wider community, DCC and integration councils. She is associated with various local organisations in Ireland and have hosted weekly Malayalam radio show on Dublin’s 99 FM for nearly 2 years, She has hosted for Dublin episode of Asianet Europe and have given voiceovers for radio and television programmes. She was also honoured to be the MC for the Irish Premier visit of Honourable Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s visit to Ireland in 2015.
She has hosted various prestigious celebrity shows in Ireland, to name a few, Shri Yesudas concert in Ireland, Padmasri Shobhana’s dance show, Stephen Devassy’s concert. `
She has been the festive Emcee for over 10 years and continues to be part of the festival as a MC this year as well . The festival has grown from strength to strength over the years and has become an important part of the cultural calendar of Ireland.
Bringing the appeal and culture of Indian cinema to European and Irish audiences
