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 Sultan

  • Fiction Short

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

  • 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

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 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