The “daily screening” is a unique part of student life at the Institute. A variety of classics and contemporary national and international films are screened every evening from Monday to Friday either at the FTII Main Theatre or at the National Film Archive of India. In addition, Saturday screenings celebrate popular Indian cinema; ensuring that students remain grounded in the prevalent practice of film-making in the country. The ‘ Main theatre’ commonly known as ‘MT’ is equipped with 300 seats and has 35mm film projection as well as digital screening facility.
The ‘Classroom Theatre’ is one of the oldest classroom for all theory classes.
Situated at Television building, Preview Theatre is another screening facility cum classroom for the students. Preview theatre is equipped with 2k projection facility and 5.1 surround sound facility.