Report: Pune International Film Festival 2024
The audience at the opening ceremony of the 22nd Pune International Film Festival reacted enthusiastically when festival director Jabbar Patel announced that PIFF’s theme was “Cinema Is Hope”. Recalling that the event had come a long way, he observed that films bear witness to the scars of our times: “We laugh, cry and rage with the characters in films. In the process, we rediscover the profound humanity that binds us all together. Movies are beyond the entertainment tag; it is a shared heartbeat, a tapestry, woven from…