[5] In 2022, many Indian films will be a part of the festival.This includes Shoe Box, Boomba Ride (Assamese), My Mother’s Girlfriend and more.

Frequent festival attendees include Mira Nair, Salman Rushdie, Padma Lakshmi, Shabana Azmi, and Deepa Mehta.

The festival will usually hold a retrospective to honor a prominent filmmaker, artist, or actor, and will screen a number of their most notable films.

Past retrospectives have featured Mira Nair, Smita Patil, and Rabindranath Tagore.

Indian films in 15 languages including Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu were screened.

[11][12] Godavari by Nikhil Mahajan The Beatles and India: An Enduring Love Affair by Ajoy Bose and Peter Compton[13] The festival’s jury consists of 13 members who have worked in both the Indian and American film industry.