Adivasi rights are not just human rights, but it is a question of the existence of all living beings and mother Earth. It is fact that in the name of 'development' the global economy has been bent on constantly destroying Adivasis worldwide. In India, to benefit the multinational mining companies' governments are acting like a 'private army' and ignoring the Adivasi rights granted by the constitution. Traditional and constitutional rights of more than 700 Adivasi communities of India have been almost seized. They are everyday victim of nationalist and extremist violent politics. Racial and religious discrimination continue in literature and popular media. In the hundred year of Indian cinema Adivasis are still invisible. But in the digital age, many Adivasi have come in the filmmaking, who producing fiction, non-fiction movies without any support of GO and NGOs. There is no film festival is organized in India so far, in which Adivasi films are exhibited or discussed from the Adivasi perspective. Especially, in Greater Jharkhand which is geographically ancestral homeland of hundreds of Adivasi communities. According to the government, this area is 'naxal-affected' but the reality is that this region is historically the heart of the tribal rights movement. Because it is rich mineral deposits area and tribal fighting against loot of these natural resources. Many Adivasi groups are active in this Adivasi dominated area of central India who are lobbying for their traditional and constitutional rights through literature, art and cinema. So, relevance of the proposed Adivasi film festival to this point is unmistakable. Because with the organizing of the proposed international Adivasi film festival, Adivasi rights movements will be strengthened only, this will help Adivasi art, literature and films also get an organized platform. This will be the first Adivasi film festival to be organized from Adivasi leadership and perspective in the country, in which films and filmmakers can keep their point of view in front of the world without any external interference, cut or editing.

The proposed program is as follows: Opening session: (Day-1)
1. Ancestral Remembrance
2. Welcome Address
3. Keynote Address
4. Presidential Address

Film Screening/Lectures/Panel Discussion and Q&A (Day-1)
1. Screening of Opening Film
Followed by Conversation and Q&A with director.
2. Screening of Festival Theme Film
3. Screening of Classic Film
Followed by Ranjeet Oraon's Lecture on Adivasi and Indian Cinema with Q&A

Documentary/Short Film (Day-2)
1. Panel Discussion with Adivasi Filmmakers, Writers, Critics and AR Activists | Followed by Q&A.
Subject: Adivasi Rights Expression between Extremism and State of Terror
2. Documentaries/Short Films Screening
Followed by Q&A with Directors.
3. Open Dialogue on 'Adivasi Storytelling and Art of Cinema: Challenges and Possibilities in Perspective of Adivasi Rights'

Dialogue Session (Day-3)
1. Film Screening (International)
Followed by Q&A with Directors.
2. Panel Discussion with Adivasi Filmmakers, Writers, Critics and AR Activists | Followed by Q&A.

Closing Session (Day-3)
1. Screening of Classic Film
2. Closing and Award Ceremony Address
3. Closing Address
4. Vote of Thanks

Film Screening
1. Screening of 5 (2 Indian and 3 Foreign) and one Indian classic feature films produced by national and international Adivasi/Indigenous filmmakers.
2. Screening of invited 3 Indian and one selected foreign documentary films.
3. Screening of Invited 3 Indian and one selected foreign short films.

Lectures and Q&A.
1. By Adivasi-Indigenous Filmmakers.
2. By Adivasi-Indigenous AR Activists.
3. By Literature, Arts, Cinema, Media and Intertainment Industries Persons.

Panel Discussion and Open Dialogues
Subject 1: Adivasi and Indian Cinema
Subject 2: Adivasi Rights Expression between Extremism and State of Terror
Subject 3: Adivasi Storytelling and Art of Cinema: Challenges and Possibilities in Perspective of Adivasi Rights<
Subject 4: Adivasi Filmmaking, Finance and Facilitation Strategy in Local Theatre to Virtual World.

Special Sessions
1. Opening Event
2. Closing Event
3. MADAIT (Promotion) SESSION:
(In this session a presentation of the selected story / an excerpt / trailer of the three new films will be done to the help of Adivasi filmmakers.)

Total Screening in Festival
1. Feature Films 6 (3 Indian, 3 Foreign)
2. Short Films 5 (3 Indian, 2 Foreign)
3. Documentary Films 5 (3 Indian, 2 Foreign)

Expected Participation
On an average 100 people will be present at the film festival every day excluding filmmakers, AR activists, guest faculty and media persons.

Besides this, Adivasi critics and writers, research scholars and intellectuals, social activists and literary lovers of Adivasi society will be present in this event.