BRICS Film Showcase at 57th IFFI to Screen 21 Films

The festival that opens in Goa next week will give the BRICS grouping a section of its own. On 14 November 2026 the organisers of the 57th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) announced ‘Films from BRICS’, a curated package of 21 films from the member countries of the grouping. The selection is built around questions of democracy, freedom, identity, history and present-day global concerns, and it moves across countries, languages and genres.

The Indian entry

India is represented by ‘Article 370’, directed by Aditya Dhar. The film is set against the backdrop of the 2016 unrest in Kashmir and follows a mission to abrogate Article 370. It had already won three honours at the 72nd National Film Awards, in the categories of Best Film, Best Actress and Best Music, which makes it the most decorated title in the package.

What else is in the package

Brazil's ‘Amadeo and the Hypothetical New World’ imagines an African inventor in the Brazil of the 1830s whose invention becomes part of the struggle to free enslaved people. Indonesia's ‘The Sea Speaks His Name’ turns on the disappearance of a student activist during that country's pro-democracy movement of 1998. South Africa's ‘The Trek’ crosses the Kalahari Desert in the middle of the nineteenth century. ‘Dreaming of Serenada’, a Uganda-United Kingdom documentary, reads climate change and the damage done by flooding through a father and daughter. ‘Faya Dayi’, from Ethiopia and the United States, looks at communities tied to khat cultivation, while Iran's ‘Poultry Farm’ follows an undocumented child from Iraq.

The fuller line-up

Family, identity and personal choice shape another group of films: Saudi Arabia's ‘Hijra’, China's ‘Embers’, the Bolivia-Peru production ‘The Condor Daughter’ and the Nigeria-United Kingdom film ‘Lady’. The rest of the showcase brings ‘Kindik (The Cord)’ from Kazakhstan, ‘Baracoa’ from Cuba and Italy, ‘Bo Bo’ from the Russian Federation, ‘Safe Exit’ from Egypt, Germany, Libya, Qatar and Tunisia, ‘9 Temples to Heaven’ from Thailand, Singapore, France, Norway, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Qatar, ‘Cotton’ from Uzbekistan, ‘Baga: Tomorrow Belongs to No One’ from Malaysia, ‘1982’ from Vietnam, ‘And the Snow Was Falling’ from Belarus and ‘Baab’ from the United Arab Emirates.

The festival around it

The 57th IFFI runs from 20 to 28 November 2026 at venues across Goa and will screen over 150 international films from 86 countries through competitive and non-competitive sections, curated packages, retrospectives and tributes. For the exam, the BRICS package is best remembered by its size, its Indian entry and the festival totals around it.