The World Comes Home.

150 films. 11 venues spread across the city. 2600 delegates. Distinguished international and national guests.  A meaningful interface with the industry at the Film Market. A gala opening ceremony and a grand finale. The 17^th edition of Kolkata Film Festival is coming alive on 10^th November, 2011 in Kolkata, the city of emotion and of cinema.

It is a festival of emotions where 150 movies of myriad shades will strum every cord of human emotions in their subtlest to the most dramatic fashion. They will touch lives of people around the globe in their truest social, political and emotional context throwing lights in the darkness of soul and beyond.

Ranging from a bouquet of tributes to old masters to a meaningful collection of contemporary world cinema, the 17^th edition of the Kolkata Film Festival embodies the spirit of change and of plurality of thought and emotion , and harmonizes the old with the new, the traditional with the contemporary and the far with the near.