IFP Season 14 | Oct 12 & 13, Mumbai
Every thought at IFP has the potential to move the world. When thought leaders from creative & culture domains climb IFP’s stage, they have one question hanging in their brain – How do we add more value to our audiences.
Each year, IFP team mines tens of sheets of data about trends, future, opportunities and works closely with it’s curators to drive some of the most brilliant sessions for you – so that when you enter any of our sessions, you’re mindblown!
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in conversation with Rajkummar Rao
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in conversation with Rajkummar Rao
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in conversation with Rajkummar Rao
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in conversation with Rajkummar Rao
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in conversation with Rajkummar Rao
Adarsh Gourav, Anna Ben, Gurfateh Pirzada and Sidhant Gupta in conversation with Rohini Ramanathan
Ayappa KM, Neville Shah in conversation with Ankur Pathak
Akash Shah, Balram Vishwakarma, Naveen Kukreja, Sunchika Pandey, Harshit Bansal in conversation with Vivekanand Kilari
Priyanka Khimani
Imran Khan in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
#Ask the OPs of Creator Arena
Anand Tiwari, Kunal Kemmu, Raj & DK, Vir Das and Sachin-Jigar in conversation with Harshit Bansal
Ankita Shrivastav, Ashish Shakya, Abish Mathew in conversation with Arun Singh
Hozaifa Sayed
Shefali Shah and Vir Das in conversation with Mayank Shekhar
Dhruv Sehgal, Sumukhi Suresh, Sai Godbole, Imaad Shah, Sumeet Vyas in conversation with Shreemi Verma
Jay Oza, K K Senthil Kumar, Priya Seth, Shreya Dev Dube, Siddharth Diwan in conversation with Aditya Varma
Ankush Bahuguna, Dolly Singh, Parul Gulati, Suhani Shah, Malini Agarwal in conversation with Renil Abraham
Anurag Minus Verma, Arun Singh, Devaiah Bopanna, Raghav Juyal led by Shreemi Verma
Divyansh Kacholia
Awards Ceremony
Barun Sobti, Kritika Kamra, Rasika Dugal, Amruta Subhash in conversation with Vagmita Singh
Shaunak Sen, Rintu Thomas, Guneet Monga, led by Hardik Mehta
Roxanne Chinoy, Sakshi Shivdasani
Award Ceremony
Arivu and PrabhDeep in conversation with Sneha Ramesh
Arjun Mathur in conversation with Vaibhav Munjal
Manav Kaul in conversation with Aastha Atray Banan
Saurabh Dwivedi
Aditya Roy Kapoor
Anusha Rizvi, Hansal Mehta, in conversation by Ankur Pathak
Eric Roth (virtually) in conversation with Rohan Joshi
IFP Winners Showcase
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Nimrat Kaur, Ritesh Batra (virtually) & Sutapa Sikdar in conversation with Aseem Chhabra.
Aryaan Misra, Mae Thomas, Vaibhav Munjal & Vinamre Kasanaa, in conversation with Utsav Mamoria
Nimrat Kaur, Radhika Madan, Mikhil Musale
Ankita Sehgal, Chandni Bhabhda, Dharna Durga, RJ Karishma led by Pulkit Kocchar
Design Challenge Award Ceremony Gopi Prasanna, Rahul Saini, Jayesh Joshi, Jayesh Sachdev, D. Udaya Kumar
Konkona SenSharma in conversation with Genesia Alves
Kubbra Sait and Shrayana Bhattacharya, in conversation with Aastha Atray Banan.
Music composers
Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha.
Anurag Saikia, Mahima Dayal Mathur, Hanumankind, Srushti Tawde, led by Raghav Meattle
Gulshan Devaiah and Jim Sarbh in conversation with Stutee Ghosh
S. Hareesh in conversation with Maneesh Narayanan Live Transalation by Alleen Elias Babu
Harpreet Bachher
Jimmy Shergill in conversation with Mukul Singh Chauhan
Pratik Gandhi
Srinivas Mohan
Awards Ceremony
Stand Up Comedians
Lillete Dubey, Namit Das, Pratik Gandhi and Sheeba Chadha in conversation with Rohini Ramanathan
Anushree Mehta, Karan Boolani, Rahul Chittella, Vatsal Neelakantan, Yashowardhan Mishra in conversation with Mohar Basu
Aaquib Wani, Alicia Souza, Jayesh Sachdev & Santanu Hazarika in conversation with Anant Ahuja
Admaker's
50HMC Award Ceremony
Ayushi Amin, Natasha Bharadwaj, Rytasha Rathore, Vagmita Singh, Smriti Kiran, in conversation with Dhvani Solani
Ira Glass (virtually) in conversation with Varun Duggirala
Mohammad Muneem, Amandeep Singh, Chintan Rachchh, Nirmika Singh, Srushti Tawade moderated by Kopal Khanna
Satyanshu Singh
Edgar Wright (virtually) in conversation with Rohan Joshi
Screening Passages
Previous winners showcase
Breakdown with Yashraj Mukhate, Anshuman Sharma, Dipraj Jadhav in conversation with Aayush Tiwari
Harnidh Kaur, Puneet Sharma, Aranya Johar
10 hacks by Snigdha Karmahe
Vijay Varma in conversation with Aseem Chhabra
Christine Leunens (Virtual) in conversation with Aastha Atray
Ragasur
10 Hacks by Manav Chhabra, Funcho (Dhruv Shah and Shyam Sharma), Meghna Kaur
Cyrus Broacha, Akash Banerjee, in Conversation with Meghnad S.
10 Hacks by Jaideep Sahni
Shreyansh Pandey, Sonam Nair, Deepak Kumar Mishra with Suchin Mehrotra
Dr.Tanaya, Leeza Mangaldas
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Vivek Tejuja in conversation with Smriti Sant
Drown your sorrow boat, piñata Breaking
Prajakta Koli, Rohit Saraf, Akarsh Khurana, Gazal Dhaliwal, in conversation with RJ Prerna.
Collaborative classroom with Anyasa
Prashant Godbole
Divyang Thakkar, Dr. Sailesh Kolanu, Anubhuti Kashyap, Hitesh Bhatia and Jasmeet K Reen with Mohar Basu
Leeza Mangaldas, Aakash Ranison, Dr. Siddhart Warrier and Sharan Hegde in conversation with Ayush Shukla
Makarand Deshpande
R Balki, Pooja Bhatt & Shreya Dhanwanthary in conversation with Aseem Chhabra
Sucharita Tyagi, Srishti Dixit in conversation with Dhvani Solani
Premik Jolly
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Leena Yadav, Dr. Lakshmi Lingam,
10 Hacks by Rahgir, Raghav Meattle, Osho Jain and Hanita Bhambri
Aditi Mittal, Neeti Palta
Alankrita Shrivastava, Jeo Baby, Rima Das, K Selvaraghavan
The Yellow Diary in conversation with Mae Thomas
Vivin Kuruvilla
David Wappel (Virtual)
by Hanita Bhambri, Rahgir
Prajakta Koli in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Bhavani Iyer, Apurva Asrani, Saiwyn Quadras
Guru Vaidya
Radhika Madan, Kirti Kulhari, Gulshan Devaiah, Jim Sarbh in conversation with Ankur Pathak
Sukanya Venkatraghavan, Harinder Sikka in conversation with Anuya Jakatdar
Manoj Bajpayee in conversation with Aparshakti Khurana
Asheema Vardaan, Ajay Bahl, Sachin Mohite in conversation with Priyam Saha
Radhakrishnan Chakyat
Devdutt Pattanaik in conversation with Shatrujeet Nath
Anand Gandhi
Sucharita Tyagi, Rahul Desai
Aparna Purohit, Kanika Dhillon, Abhishek Chaubey, Ajit Andhare, Sumit Arora in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Beer Biceps, Flying Beast, Karan Singh Magic in conversation with Viraj Sheth
Matt Ma, Danny Wang
Vikramaditya Motwane, Patrick Graham, Karan Anshuman in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan
Andaleeb Wajid, Ravinder Singh in conversation with Sharin Bhatti
Sumukhi Suresh, Abish Mathew, Ashish Shakya in conversation with Devang Pathak
Dar Gai, Navzar Eranee, Aaron Pinto in conversation with Dinkar Dwivedi
Shellee, Raj Shekhar, Hussain Haidry in conversation with RJ Nyssha
Rajkummar Rao, Mikhil Musale, Dinesh Vijan in conversation with Janice Sequeira
Kusha Kapila, Jordindian, BeYouNick in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Sidharth Jain
The award ceremony will see the announcement and screening of the winning films from the 50 hour filmmaking challenge.
Naseeruddin Shah in conversation with Anand Tiwari
Jidnya Sujata, Yahya Bootwala, Amandeep Singh
Tara Khandelwal
Javed Akhtar in conversation with Mayank Shekhar
Kamna Chandra on Raising a Family of Writers with Daughters Tanuja Chandra and Anupama Chopra
Viral Thakkar
Nitesh Tiwari in conversation with Tahira Kashyap Khurrana
Mehak Mirza Prabhu, Amandeep Singh
Atika Chohan, Gaurav Sharma, Niren Bhatt, Sumit Roy in conversation with Navjot Gulati
Yashaswini Dayama, Ahsaas Channa, Ritvik Sahore, Harsh Mayar in conversation with Viraj Ghelani
Mikey McCleary, Vaibhav Bundhoo, Neel Adhikari in conversation with RJ Nyssha
Neil Sadwelkar
Ritviz. Naezy in conversation with Nirmika Singh
Pooja Ladha Surti, Namrata Rao, Nitin Baid in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan
Radhakrishnan Chakyat
Divya Dutta, Swara Bhaskar, Faraz Ansari in conversation with Faridoon Shahryar
Sukanya Venkatraghavan, Nikita Deshpande, Tashan Mehta in conversation with Anuya Jakatdar
Sameer Saxena in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Zakir Khan in conversation with Cyrus Broacha
Kubbra Sait, Apurva Asrani, Onir in conversation with Renil Abhraham
Radhakrishnan Chakyat
Ishaan Khatter in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Savita Singh, Ashim Ahluwalia, Navdeep Singh, Sudeep Chatterjee in conversation with Vaibhav Munjal
Kavita Rajwade, Amit Doshi, Farhad Karkaria, Varun Duggirala
Sampurna Chattarji, Aranya Johar, Rochelle D'Silva, Simar Singh in conversation with Sharin Bhatti
Kiran Manral, Meghna Pant in conversation with Hiral Malde
Ramit Batra
Kaneez Surka, Gaurav Gera, Kiku Sharda in conversation with Ravina Rawal
Aakash Shah, Nikhil Jain, Pulkit Kochar in conversation with Varun Duggirala
What does it take to be at the forefront of progressive change by breaking taboos?
Chetan Mahajan (Himalayan Writing Retreat)
Raj Khatri (Creative Head - Marching Ants)
Ashwin Suresh, Dhruv Sehgal, Mithila Palkar, Ruchir Arun
250+ Writers from 48 cities submitted their script on the same theme 'Modern Day Love'.
Bhumi Pednekar, Saqib Saleem
Anupama Chopra, RS Prasanna, Raj Nidimoru in conversation with Mayank Shekhar
Gurmehar Kaur, Meghna Pant, Prajakta Koli
Ravi Jadhav, Anjali Menon in conversation with Sudhish Kamath
Anupama Chopra, Bhawana Somaya, Rahul Desai, Bharathi Pradhan in conversation with Jyoti Kapur Das
Sucharita Tyagi
Manish Mundra, Raghav Gupta, Karuna Vishwanath, Ritika Bhatia, in conversation with Hardik Mehta
Sona Mohapatra, Nirmika Singh
Nidhi Bisht, Shreyasi Sharma, Chirag Ratnasingh, Akanksha Dua
Dilshad Nanji (Coolab Media), Miten Udeshi (Ch4 Studios)
The Hollywood Adventures of an Indian Star: Ali Fazal in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Kunal Roy Kapoor, Anuvab Pal
Satyen Poojary, Rohan Albal, Amit Shetty in conversation with Siddhant Karnick
Ayushmann Khurrana, Priti Shahani, Amit Sharma, Akshat Ghildiyal, Shantanu Shrivastava in conversation with Ankur Pathak
Nirmika Singh, Benny Dayal
Helen Silvester, Director West India
The 2 hour long award ceremony will see the announcement and screening of the Winning Films - While you witness the crazy energy of winning teams running up the stage and grabbing their trophies.
Vicky Kaushal in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
In association with KOMMUNE Tess Joseph, Manisha Lakhe
In association with Anupam Kher's Actor Prepares - Paresh Parekh
Rajeev Masand, Vikramaditya Motwane, Baradwaj Rangan
Tanuja Chandra, Savita Singh, Juhi Chaturvedi, Shriya Pilgaonkar in conversation with Sneha Menon Desai
Bhuvan Bam
Shlok Sharma, Vandana Kataria, Karthik Ganesh in conversation with Sudhish Kamath
Chinni Nihalani (Promoshop)
Prajkata Koli, Ashish Chanchlani, Nirali Kartik in conversation with Gurpreet Singh
Hansal Mehta in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan
Priyanka Khimani (Anand & Anand Khimani)
Sandeep Modi, Anand Towari, Nagesh Kukunoor, Ashi Dua in conversation with Rahul Desai
Raghu Karnad in conversation with Samdish Bhatia
Bejoy Nambiar, Ghazal Dhaliwal, Hitesh Kewalya in conversation with Meenakshi Shedde
Biswapati Sarkar, Sumit Arora, Ishita Moitra in conversation with Navjot Gulati
Aseem Chhabra, Raja Sen
Ajay Chacko, Anuj Gosalia, Aditi Srivastava in conversation with Vineet Kanabar
Bhuvan Bam, Mallika Dua, Kaneez Surka in conversation with Devang Pathak
Mukesh Chhabra, Tess Joseph in conversation with Mauli Singh
Raja Sen, Rahul Desai
Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari in conversation with RJ Megha
Amol Parashar, Aahana Kumra, Gopal Datt, Naveen Kasturia in conversation with Shreemi Verma
Vivek Tejuja and Anuya Jakatdar
Kartik Aaryan in conversation with Ashish Chanchlani
Ankit Rihal, Pooja Kachela, Manasi Parekh
Alexander Payne in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Cast and Creative team of Hostel Daze
Team of What the Folks Season 2
Zain Memon in conversation with Ishita Gandhi
Anand Rathi, Harpreet Bachher
Terribly Tiny Tales
CarryMinati, Prajakta Koli
Kunal Kohli, Makarand Deshpande and Sameer Saxena in conversation with Abhilash Thapiyal
Pratish Nair (Founder - Prahlad Kakkar School of Branding and Entrepreneurship)
Anand Tiwari and Amol Parashar in conversation with Raja Sen
Sameer Pitawalla (CEO, Culture Machine), Saameer Mody (Pocket Films) in conversation with Chaitanya Chinchilikar
Prahlad Kakkar
Nikkhil Advani, Somnath Sen in conversation with Raja Sen
Anupama Chopra in conversation with Bikas Mishra
Neil Sadwelkar
Vijay Nair in conversation with Tanmay Bhat
Baradwaj Rangan, Nidhi Bisht in conversation with Sandeep Modi
Neil Sadwelkar
Vasan Bala, Kanu Behl, Navjot Gulati and Sanam Nair powered by Terribly Tiny Tales
Shruti Madan (Girlyapa), Anand Tiwari, Amritpal Singh Bindra
Ashutosh Gowariker in conversation with RJ Megha
Siddharth Mahadevan, Shalmali kholgade and Sachin-Jigar in conversation with Nirali Kartik (Maati Baani)
Rahul Desai
Kunal Kapoor, Sagar Ballary in conversation with Chhitra Subramaniam
Pankaj Bhadouria, Pooja Dhingra, Saransh Goila and Kelvin Cheung in conversation with Rakhee Vaswani
Actors Prepare
Neha Dhupia, Shashank Khaitan, Dia Mirza in conversation with Ankur Pathak
Devdutt Patnail in conversation with Mayur Puri
Actors Prepare
Harsh Beniwal, Karan Talwar in conversation with Sucharita Tyagi
Karan Singh (CEO, Sunburn), Tarsame Mittal (TM Talent Management), Sattvik Mishra (CEO, Scoopwhoop) in conversation with Vineet Kanabar (TVF)
Kunal Kapoor
Irshad Kamil, Apurva Asrani, Hardik Mehta in conversation with Anjum Rajabali
Anirudh Pandita, Dhruv Sehgal, Kartik Krishnan in conversation with Nikhil Taneja
Devaiah Bopanna (All India Bakchod)
Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla in conversation with Parvin Dabas
Nikhil Taneja
Sidharth Jain, JD Majethia, Spandan Mishra in conversation with Ankur Pathak
Tarun Tripathi (OML), Ambi Parmeswaran in conversation with Karthik Nagarajan (GroupM)
Mukesh Chhabra
with TVF team
Nikhil Taneja
with Harry Arora
with Vibhav Mehra
with Vinay Chauhan
with Harshit Joshi
with Rajat Shrivastava
with Sanjeet Kamath
with Vijay Kakwani
with Soham Sengupta
with Tanya
with Milan Karangiya
with Riddhi
with Harshit Joshi
with Rajat Shrivastava
with Vinay Chauhan
with Sanjeet Kamath
with Vibhav Mehra
Understand how artificial intelligence is reshaping enterprise decision-making, automation, and customer engagement.
Prakash
Explore real-world applications of blockchain in supply chains, identity management, and digital security.
Prakash
Meet founders of groundbreaking startups and hear pitch-style presentations on how they are solving today’s toughest tech problems.
Prakash
Learn the latest Google algorithm updates and how to optimize content for better search visibility.
Explore how analytics can guide content creation and improve ROI on marketing campaigns.
Filmmaker, Mumbai
“Whenever you participate in IFP’s challenges, you never go back empty handed. You always have learnings and experiences to take back.”
Filmmaker & Theatre Artist, Lucknow
“It was a whirlwind of ideas. It is only after you’ve completed the challenge, do you realise what an amazing experience it has been.”
Filmmaker & Actor, Mumbai
“The best thing we learned was improvisation and jugaad. We just thought that we’ll go out and have fun, and that was the best experience of the 50 Hours.”
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What is the festival all about?
IFP is a multi-staged creativity & culture festival that happens across two days with more than 180+ prominent creators from Films & OTT, Digital, Literature & Writing, Music, Design & Art, Storytelling, Audio & Podcasting, Photography, Tech & Gaming, Comedy, Culture, Advertising and Performing arts who will participate in various Conversations, Panels, Workshops, Masterclasses, Live Performances, and AMAs.
Are there any hidden charges?
No, only GST will be levied on the tickets as per the government’s rules and regulations.
When and where is the festival happening?
The festival is scheduled to take place on-ground in Mumbai on December 6th & 7th, 2025.
Is the festival accessible for People of Determination?
Yes, IFP is an all-inclusive and accessible festival. We will be tying up with an accessibility management agency to ensure the same.
Can I attend all the sessions?
Yes, you will have access to all the sessions taking place across all 2 days. However Stage entry and seating will be on a first come first serve basis.
Where can I buy tickets?
The tickets are available on all the major Ticketing Platforms and on IFP’s Website. Click here to buy the tickets.
Will there be an award ceremony for the challenges?
Yes, the winners of all the challenges of IFP will be awarded during the festival. Kindly check the schedule regarding the same.
What will be the timings of the festival?
The first session on October 12 & 13, 2024 (i.e. Saturday and Sunday) will start at 10am and the last session will end at 9pm.
I’m a member of the media? How do I make arrangements for a media pass?
You can fill-up the form with relevant details and request for media invite.
Wow, there are lots of artists taking sessions! Will I get to personally interact with them?
There is no guarantee, however, you could plan for the questions you would want to ask in the event and if you are lucky, you will get an opportunity to ask them.
Will there be food at the venue?
Yes, there will be a food zone at the festival.
Will there be parking at the venue?
No, there will be no parking available at the venue.
Is there any age limit/rule?
No. The festival is open to all ages.
How do I become a Sponsor?
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What is your ticket policy?
Tickets are purchased online through our (platform) and on-ground on festival days. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
What are some of the general measures that ensure safety in all forms at the festival?
Harassment, abuse , stalking, threatening or defaming/ violating any rights (right to privacy and publicity) is not allowed and will be taken seriously. Attendees are not allowed to carry any harmful substances, weapons or arms of any kind.