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[[File:Student audience at MISFF.jpg | 600 px | thumb |Students chilling in their seats before the next screening session]]

The inaugural edition of the '''Mumbai International Student Film Festival''' (MISFF) was organised by [[Film Critics Circle of India]] and [[Cinema Society of India]] in association with, and at, KES Shroff College of Arts and Commerce, in December 2023, with [[Dalton]] as the festival director. The KES Shroff organising committee comprised Lily Bhushan, Sangeeta Unadkat, VS Kannan, [[Raavi Parihar Batra]], Askhay Nair, Ashish Richhariya, & Ashima Syal.

The short fiction jury comprised [[Daniela Rogobete]], [[Monita Borgohain]], and [[Vijay Sharma]]. The documentary jury comprised [[Alvaro Turrion]], [[Amartya Acharya]], and [[Ratan Sil Sarma]].

In addition to the film screenings, two panel discussions were conducted. The first one was on acting and had [[Arfi Lamba]], [[Prashant Naik]], [[Bijaya Jena]], [[Zachary Coffin]], and [[Akriti Singh]] as the panelists. The second one, on the personal vision of filmmakers, had [[Katharina Suckale]], [[Kaurwakee Vasistha]], [[Sharad Raj]], [[Oorvazi Irani]], [[Johnson Thomas]], and [[Joy Bimal Roy]] as the panelists.

==Awards conferred==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Award !! Film !! Director !!Country
|-
|Best Short Fiction Film || Resurrection || [[Luiza Budejko]]  || Poland
|-
|Jury Special Mention—Short Fiction || Summer 43 || [[Aneta Bussold]]  ||  Poland
|-
|Best Documentary Film || Waves  ||[[Himanshu Tomar]]   || India
|-
|}

==External links==
[https://misff.org/ Official website]

[[Category: Film Festivals]]