[1] It was the only edition of the festival during which actor Deepika Padukone served as the chairperson of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI).
In the International Competition, the Golden Gateway Award went to Honeyland by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, while the Silver Gateway Award went to Buoyancy by Rodd Rathjen.
[4] During this edition, the festival bestowed the Excellence in Cinema Award to veteran Indian actor Deepti Naval and Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles.
[5] The following juries were constituted for this edition of the festival:[6][7] The Half Ticket juries were composed of schoolchildren in two age groups, 5-12 years (Aishwarya Venkatesh, Gauri Sajith, Kyathi Kottari, and Saher Sakhpara), and 13-17 years (Amay Doshi, Janice Mistry, Karan Rajput, and Smriti Singh).
Also screened as a Special Presentation was the 2019 documentary Kaifinama by Sumantra Ghosal, whose subject is the Indian Urdu-language poet Kaifi Azmi.