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Distribution Library

Various educational institutions, cultural organizations, film societies, etc are members of the NFAI Distribution Library. 

The Distribution Library dispatches films by Railway, Surface Courier and also by Air  throughout the country. It is also responsible to send films abroad with a view to familiarize Indian cinema in foreign countries. Hence booking of films may be done well in advance.

A number of important classics like Bicycle Thieves, Pather Panchali, documentaries like Nanook of the North, feature in the the Distribution Library list of NFAI.

As a part of its activities under dissemination of film culture, NFAI's headquarters at Pune and three Regional Offices at Bangalore, Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram extend distribution library facilities to the members throughout the country. The Distribution Library caters to the special screenings of films from the NFAI collection. NFAI conducts Joint Screening Programmes at Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Cochin, Jamshedpur and Pune. Long and short term courses in Film Appreciation are conducted regularly in collaboration with FTII and other educational institutions and cultural organizations. NFAI has been a major source of films for the International festivals held in India as well as abroad.

The Terms and Conditions for borrowing films vary with every film title.
Members are requested to clear all formalities prior to actual booking of films.
 
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