PVR INOX is bringing back its Pride Film Festival on May 29, 2026, with a week-long run across 20 cities and 40 cinemas that will put Rocketman, Moonlight and Baapya back on the big screen. The company says the program is meant to celebrate layered and pathbreaking queer cinema from around the world.
Niharika Bijli said cinema has always been a powerful medium for empathy, identity and dialogue, and said PVR INOX believes storytelling can foster inclusion and celebrate diverse voices. She added that the company is proud to bring back globally celebrated titles such as Moonlight and Rocketman, along with Baapya, which she described as a story from the heartland of India.
The festival begins today and adds another chapter to PVR INOX’s ongoing effort to honour exceptional talents and landmark films from India and abroad. The company says the aim is also to return timeless films to the big screen for viewers who first saw them years ago, as well as for audiences discovering them for the first time.
That mix is what gives the revival its edge. Pride programming can be easy to frame as symbolic, but this lineup reaches across genres, languages and regions, with an Academy Award-winning drama, a musical biopic and a Marathi film sharing the same platform. PVR INOX is betting that the appeal of those titles will travel well beyond a single audience segment.
Booking details and theatre listings will be available soon on the official PVR INOX app and website. For now, the company has set the date and the scale, and the next step is whether audiences in those 20 cities turn the announcement into full houses.
