The Hollywood Reporter India Brings The Monsoon Film Festival In Collaboration With Nilaya Anthology

Curated in collaboration with The Hollywood Reporter India, Nilaya Anthology brings together the forces of cinema, design and culture with the first-ever Monsoon Film Festival.

Built around the theme of Journey, the festival explores and dissects how films travel across time, ideas, places and generations. It also examines their role in shaping the stories we tell and reminisce, the spaces we occupy and the memories we share through them.

"For The Hollywood Reporter India, it’s always rewarding to see films revealed in a new context. The Monsoon Film Festival is an opportunity to think about cinema through a new lens like design, and we’re excited to see these two worlds come together," says Anupama Chopra, Editor, THR India.

Running from July 17 to August 9, 2026, across four weekends, the month-long inaugural edition features a meticulously curated slate of conversations, film screenings masterclasses and workshops. Together, the experience explores how cinema travels across generations, cultures and personal histories. The festival is headlined by voices who continue to shape the evolving worlds of film, art and design.

"At Anthology, we see cinema as one of design's most complete cultural expressions. Every frame is an act of objects, materials and space coming together; as essential to storytelling as the script itself," said Pavitra Rajaram, Creative Director of Nilaya Anthology.

The Hollywood Reporter India and Nilaya Anthology look forward to hosting a festival where cinema and design come together to inspire new ways of seeing the world.

To register and attend this festival: click here