ViBGYOR International Film Festival is a celebration of films that ushers in a new film grammar; and deep down, it is a celebration of the human spirit as it transcends itself. It covers the living experience of millions of people across the globe, recorded by a set of skilled and committed documentary and short filmmakers from around the world. The five-day Film festival is not only a treat of brilliant films, but also an interface with filmmakers, activists, leaders of people’s movements, academicians, youth and common people from diverse streams of life.

Film festivals, it is noticed, tend to attract mainly middle class and middle-aged audience in the cities, where as the youth, women and people from the suburbs and villages seldom get an opportunity to attend these festivals. From its beginning in 2006, ViBGYOR has taken a different path, by bringing films and filmmakers to where ordinary people live, people who do not have a camera or a canvas to bring their stories to light.

The series of Mini festivals --the Village ViBGYOR conducted in panchayats and Campus ViBGYOR in educational institutions--culminate in the Annual Festival in Thrissur town. The resonances of the annual festival are then effectively carried forward throughout the year with a series of ViBGYOR Touring Festivals, taken around the country. From its humble beginnings, the significance and impact of ViBGYOR as an alternative festival for issue-based non-feature films has been growing and gradually transcending all borders and boundaries, in the true spirit of the central theme of ViBGYOR, that is, celebrating identities and diversity.