Awards
2025
Jury Awards
Documentary Feature
Winner: Marching in The Dark, Dir: Kinshuk Surjan
Fiction Feature
Winner: Humans in The Loop, Dir: Aranya Sahay
Audience Choice Awards
Fiction Feature
Winner: Pyre, Dir: Vinod Kapri
Fiction Short
Winner: Out of The House, Dir: Brittany Ward
Documentary Feature
Love Chaos Kin, Dir: Chithra Jeyaram
Documentary Short
Teaching America, Dir: Anurima Bhargava
Special Mention
Courage, Dir: Ankur Kakatkar
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
Fiction Feature
Winner: The Mehta Boys, Dir: Boman Irani
Runner up (tie): Gold Medal, Dir: Ujjwal Patel
Runner up (tie): Gunjal, Dir: Shoaib SultanFiction Short
Winner: Was I A Good Father?, Dir: Abhineet Kumar
Runner up: Night Queen, Dir: Noireeta DasguptaDocumentary Feature
Winner: Songs of the Sufi, Dir: Akshay Ashok Shah
Runner up: ZENDE: The Supercop, Dir: Shahrukh WaheedDocumentary Short
Winner: State in Silence, Dir: Ruvin De Silva
Runner up: Far from Home, Dir: Ankita Mukhopadhyay
2021
Audience Choice Awards
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 KulkarniFiction 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 RajuDocumentary 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 GiridharDocumentary 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