7th International Film Festival of India

{{short description|Indian film festival}}

{{Infobox film awards

| number =7

| award = International Film Festival of India

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| awarded_for = Best of World cinema

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| presenting_org = Directorate of Film Festivals

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| presented_date = 1979

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| website = {{URL|http://www.iffigoa.org/}}

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| best_feature = "Hungarian Rhapsody"

| last = 6th

| next = 8th

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The 7th International Film Festival of India was held from 3–17 January 1979 in New Delhi.{{Cite web |url=http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm7IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=7IIFA.pdf |title=Directorate of Film Festival |access-date=11 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112042443/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm7IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=7IIFA.pdf |archive-date=12 January 2018 |url-status=dead }} The festival opened with "Junoon" by Shyam Benegal in the out of Competition world premiere. The festival was the only competitive and exclusive international film festival organised in the entire Third World during 1978–79. For the first time in the history of the Indian Competitive film festivals, the Jury was headed by a foreigner, Qusmane Sembene of Senegal. There were two women on the jury (Chantal Akerman – Belgium, and Marta Maszaves – Hungary) for the first time.{{cite web|url=http://rrtd.nic.in/iffi-2002.htm|title=International Film Festival in India|website=rrtd.nic.in|access-date=31 March 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041121093039/http://rrtd.nic.in/iffi-2002.htm|archive-date=21 November 2004}}