About Us

Ahmadabad International Children Film Festival 2019 got Tremendous success with overwhelming response on its first Year.  With total 40 entries, 17 films of 7 languages were selected to screened at the festival at Ahmedabad that too free of cost. This is the platform where Children across the world can show their talent as a film maker and enjoy watching meaningful children cinema. Now the festival is back with the second edition of 2020 but, this year due to current pandemic situation the festival will be hosted online. We will be screening movies online on our official You tube channel. The festival will be held on 18th and 19th December 2020, with screening of selected films online.  

There are total 4 categories One for Children Feature film 41 minutes or more, Short film 40 minutes or less, Documentary film between 10 to 40 minutes and student film category between 5 to 40 minutes. This can be in any language, any country origin. After opening entry this year we have been receiving good response from Iran, Germany, China, Israel, USA, Canada, Italy, Japan, Turkey, United Kingdom and also very big entries from our own India. 

How to submit your film: We are hosting AICFF on world's most reputed film festival hosting site, Filmfreeway. Our festival URL is : https://filmfreeway.com/aicff

All students can submit their film free, there are not charges for students to submit their film to this festival. This is Student category. 

RULES & REGULATIONS FOR SUBMISSION
Main Categories :
Feature Film ( 41 minutes or longer )
Short Film ( 40 minutes or less )
Documentary film ( 5 to 40 minutes )
Student Film ( 5 to 40 minutes )

Awards in various categories :
Best Director Feature Film
Best Actor / Actress Feature Film
Best Child Actor Feature Film
Best Story Feature Film

Best Short Film
Best Director Short Film
Best Documentary Film
Best Director Documentary Film
Best Student Film

In all categories, Films made on or before 1st December 2021
are eligible for submission. Previously submitted films in any category are not eligible for re submission.

One has to submit their entries on Film freeway, https://filmfreeway.com/aicff

 Enriching children to the Silver Screen 

 Awards 

Certificate as an Award in Various Categories

Best Film
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Child Actor
Best Story
Best background score
( Full length feature film )

Best Short Film
Best Director Short Film

Best Documentary Film
Best Director Documentary Film

Best Student Film

Special Jury Mention

Golden Kite Award
Silver Kite Award
Bronze Kite Award

This year Our festival Director is Manish Saini and Jury members are Aarti Patel and Aashish Kakkad.AICFF founder Chetan Chauhan has been involved with the entertainment industry and also done more than 30 Children film festival screenings in various cities past 10 years. 

Manish Saini : ( Festival Director )  I personally feel in India there are few film makers and very few film producers who really work for children cinema. In fact there are very rare Indian Children Films reach to the theaters, so we must make more children cinema, must have more such children film festivals, we must encourage children, parents and schools for talent to come out with good children content. 

Aarti Patel : ( Festival Jury ) I feel in recent pandemic situation when children are more use to screen time, we hope to see more good children films which can motivate help and encourage children film makers and children to watch more content. We must support children film makers. 

Girish Makwana : ( Festival Jury ) I personally feel making cinema on children are more difficult than other film, it is an art and we must appreciate such festivals and film makers, as such overall in India we don't even make 2% children films out of total films we make. This needs a special attention by all of us. 

Chetan Chauhan : ( Founder AICFF ) We are trying to create meaningful intellectual property by way of hosting this festival. Children are the biggest story tellers in this world, and we must have them more.