River to River Florence Indian Film Festival

The 25th edition of the River to River Florence Indian Film Festival, held from December 5th to 10th, 2025, at Cinema La Compagnia in Florence, celebrated a quarter-century of Indian cinema in Tuscany. The program explored family dynamics, conflicts between tradition and modernity, gender issues, the environment, and shifting identities, with great attention to auteur cinema, independent productions, and major Bollywood hits.

The festival opened with Anurag Basu's Metro… In Dino, while the closing celebrated the 30th anniversary of the romantic Bollywood classic Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. Among the guests were director Varsha Bharath with Bad Girl and producer Angela Page. A new "River" section investigated the symbolism of rivers in Indian culture, accompanied by the INDIA CALLING exhibition at Palazzo Vecchio.

December 5 — Opening

• Opening film: Metro… In Dino by Anurag Basu
• Vernissage of the INDIA CALLING exhibition at Palazzo Vecchio (30 visual works)

During the festival

• Bad Girl presented by director Varsha Bharath (IFFR selection)
• The short film Hariji Weds Sajili with producer Angela Page
• Special "River" section: The River by Jean Renoir (1951, Dec 6) and Boatman by Gianfranco Rosi (1994, Dec 8)
• Tribute to the centenary of Ritwik Ghatak with The Subarna River (1965)

December 10 — Closing

• Closing film: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), for the 30th anniversary of the Bollywood classic

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, with the opening entrusted to Metro… In Dino by Anurag Basu, the new "River" section, and the closing with the 30th anniversary of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.