Awards

2024

Jury Awards:

Documentary Feature

Winner: Pink Belt, Dir: John McCrite

Fiction Feature

Winner: Maaran, Dir: Abhishek Jain
Runner up: Barir Naam Shahan, Dir: Leesa Gazi

Audience Choice Awards:

Documentary Feature

Winner: Songs of the Sufi, Dir: Akshay Ashok Shah
Runner up: ZENDE: The Supercop, Dir: Shahrukh Waheed

Documentary Short

Winner: State in Silence, Dir: Ruvin De Silva
Runner up: Far from Home, Dir: Ankita Mukhopadhyay

Fiction Short

Winner: Was I A Good Father?, Dir: Abhineet Kumar
Runner up: Night Queen, Dir: Noireeta Dasgupta

Fiction Feature

Winner: The Mehta Boys, Dir: Boman Irani
Runner up (tie): Gold Medal, Dir: Ujjwal Patel
Runner up (tie): Gunjal, Dir: Shoaib Sultan

2021

Fiction Feature

WINNER: Sand & Snow, Director - Jaraad Virani
FIRST RUNNER UP: Sijou, Director - Vishal P. Chalice
SPECIAL MENTIONS: Americanish, Director - Iman Zawahry; Once Upon a time (Ekda Kay Zaala), Director - Saleel Kulkarni 

Fiction Short

WINNERS: ICU, Director - Nikhil Chalam; Zero Kilometer, Director - Shamas Nawab Siddiqui
FIRST RUNNER UP: Daadhi (The Beard), Director - Prashant Pandey; The Mother Wound, Diector - Eesha Johal
SPECIAL MENTIONS: Tea and a Rose, Director - Indrani Ray; A Nickname, Director - Sean Sankalp Raju

Documentary Feature

WINNER: Ela: Breaking Boundaries, Director - Swapna Kurup
FIRST RUNNER UP: Declaration of a Revolution, Director - Harbaldeep Singh; Shut up Sona, Director - Deepti Gupta
SPECIAL MENTION: Emergence: Out of the Shadows, Director - Vinay Giridhar

Documentary Short

WINNER: Confluence, Director - Sonali Devnani
FIRST RUNNER UP: Sab Rab De Bande (We're all God's Creation), Director - Sukhdeep Singh
SPECIAL MENTION: Walls That Matter, Director - Tanmay Shah; Have you Forgotten me?,  Director - Baljit Sandra