West Bengal Film Centre under the West Bengal Government organizes Kolkata Film Festival (KFF). It is an annual international film festival held in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. The 13th Kolkata Film Festival has been grandly celebrated in 2007. Commemorating the glorious heritage of the Film Society movement, the Government of West Bengal created Nandan, which is the main venue for the Kolkata Film Festival. Satyajit Ray inaugurated West Bengal Film Centre in 1985; the centre started functioning from the year of its origin.

The venue Nandan not only provides the technical infrastructure for the film movement, but also conferred fruits to the Bengal intelligentsia for cerebral cultivation. From the moment of its foundation the residents of Kolkata demanded their own film festival that Bengal thoroughly deserved. In 1995, Nandan organized its first independent film festival - The Kolkata Film Festival. Within a couple of years it was recognized by FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers` Associations - Paris), the international authority of film festivals. For consecutive years Nandan has moved forward in creating a proper film culture in the city, traveling from parallel to the so-called mainstream cinemas. Now, the Kolkata Film Festival is in its 13th year and shares a stable place in the international film festival calendar, showcasing films from all over the world.

The Kolkata Film Festival takes place usually in the second-third week of November.

The venues of Kolkata Film Festival are as follows -

Nandan I (Press, Delegates & Guests)	Rabindra Sadan	STAR Theatre	Purbashree Auditorium (EZCC, Salt Lake City)
Nandan II (Press, Delegates & Guests)	Sisir Mancha (Press, Delegates & Guests)	Madhusudan Mancha - for FFSI Members	Okakura - Rabindra Bhavan (Salt Lake)
Nandan III (Press, Delegates & Guests)	New Empire	SRFTI (Main Auditorium)

The sections in Kolkata Film Festival include Cinema International, Retrospective, Focus (Region/Country), Tribute, Homage, Indian Select, Children`s Film, Special Screening and Short (fiction, non-fiction) films. There are various genres of films included in Kolkata Film Festival, namely the Children and Youth, Feature Films Cinema and Short Films. English subtitles are necessary for every film showcased in this festival. The entry to Kolkata Film Festival is free of cost. More than 100 producers and festival representatives participate in this festival. During the week of Kolkata Film Festival, several associated events take place in the city in varied locations.

Some of the events are as below -

Film market at Festival Campus	Face To Face at Film Market Campus	Press Conference at Media Centre (Nandan IV)	Film Book Bazaar at Bangla Academy Campus
Academic Sessions at Bangla Academy	Interactive Sessions at Jibanananda Sabhaghar (Bangla Academy Premises)	Exhibition at Nandan Ii Foyer

From the very point of the celluloid inception, Kolkata Film Festival has crossed the limits of the cinematic unlimited, seated on the groundbreaking shots of Hiralal Sen, the unconventional montages of Ritwik Ghatak and the approach of Satyajit Ray.

In a gorgeous ceremony, the 13th Kolkata Film Festival from10th November 2007, showcased 247 films from 56 countries at Nandan I. The eight-day film festival was inaugurated by The Governor of West Bengal - Mr. Gopal Krishna Gandhi and presided over by Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, The Honourable Chief Minister of West Bengal. The auditorium was filled with foreign delegates, film directors, film critics and various celebrated personalities.

Mr. Shyam Benegal was the Chief Guest of the ceremony, while personalities like Soumitra Chatterjee, Mrinal Sen (Renowned Film-maker) and Tarun Majumdar were present as Special Guests. Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Amit Kiran Deb, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Dilip Kumar Chakraborty, Abhijit Sanyal are renowned people from the Bengali film industry who also graced the inaugural ceremony. A total of 247 films, from 56 countries, in 15 categories were shown in 13th Kolkata Film Festival, at 11 venues. `El Violin`, directed by Mr. Francisco Vargas Quevedo from Mexico was the `Opening Film`, shown on the inaugural ceremony. Renowned painter Mr. Ganesh Haloi created the `Official Poster` for 13th Kolkata Film Festival and Roop Kala Kendra made the `Signature Film`.

The 14th Kolkata Film Festival has also started from November 2008. The categories chosen by the authorities this time are Cinema International (100 Films), Indian Select (17 Films), Great Masters (17 Films), Centenary Tribute (5 Films), Homage (11 Films), Remembering Ray (12 Films), All Time Great Films (5 Films), 90 Years of Len Films (4 Films), Children`s Films (7 Films), Discovery (6 Films), Celluloid Diamonds (25 Films), Shorts (44 Films), Documentaries (8 Films), Iranian Independents (4 Films) and Celluloid Pearls (11 Films). The inaugural film of 14th Kolkata Film Festival is `Red Like The Sky` by Director Cristiano Bortone from Italy. Other films that are being showcased in this festival are Deadly Maria, Samaritan Girl, The Bow, The Maltese Falcon, A night at the Opera, Parashpathar, Teen Kanya, Eight and Half, Shop in the High Street and many others.