Over 70 years ago, the International Film Festival of India began as an earnest attempt to place Indian cinema on the world map. Today, IFFI stands as one of the country’s three most prestigious festivals — alongside the International Film Festival of Kerala and MAMI Mumbai Film Festival — and its evolution mirrors both the ambitions and contradictions of the Indian film ecosystem.

The 56th edition of IFFI, which concluded on Friday, showed an expansion of ambition. The eclectic programming........

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