The 29th Kolkata International Film Festival, the biggest edition yet in terms of the number of venues (23), came to a close on Tuesday( 12, 12 ,2023) with a large crowd queuing up at Nandan to see the festival’s best films in competition minutes after they were announced at a ceremony at neighbouring Rabindra Sadan.

• Nandan I screened Children of Nobody, an Israeli film on the challenges faced by inmates of a shelter for at-risk youths that corrupt property developers are after.
• It was adjudged the best film in the international competition in innovation in moving images, with a cash prize of Rs 51 lakh.
• Nandan II showed Gorai Phakhri (Wild Swans), a Bodo film directed by Rajni Basumatary and produced by Jani Viswanath, on the travails of women in a patriarchal society recovering from decades of armed conflict between the state and separatists.
• The youngest awardee at the ceremony was possibly Kamil Saif, a fourth-semester student of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. Receiving his award from actors Dhritiman Chatterjee and Chapal Bhaduri for his short film Last Rehearsal, he said this was his first festival selection and first win.