IFFI Best Film Award

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IFFI Best Film Award
Golden Peacock
Awarded for"Outstanding film of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value"[1]
Sponsored byInternational Film Festival of India
First awarded1965; 59 years ago (1965)[2]
Last awarded2023
Most recent winnerEndless Borders
Highlights
Total awarded36
First winnerGamperaliya

The IFFI Best Film Award (officially known as the Golden Peacock for the Best Feature Film) is the main prize of the International Film Festival of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India.[3][4] It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with the Golden Peacock a representation of the Peacock, India’s national bird, with a permanent motto of the festival Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The whole world is a family).[5] The award is announced for films produced in a year across the world. The award was instituted in 1965 from the 3rd IFFI competitive edition.[5][6]

List of recipients

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The award carries a cash prize of 40 lakh (US$48,000) shared equally between the director and producer. The director will receive the Golden Peacock and a certificate in addition to the cash prize. The producer will receive a certificate in addition to the cash.

Year Film Original Title Director Country
1965 Gamperaliya Lester James Peries  Sri Lanka
1969 The Damned Luchino Visconti  Italy
1974 Dreaming Youth János Rózsás  Hungary
1977 Brother and Sister Ani Imōto Tadashi Imai  Japan
1979 Hungarian Rhapsody Miklós Jancsó  Hungary
1981 The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes Rangel Valchanov  Bulgaria
Aakrosh Govind Nihalani  India
1983 Not Awarded Not Awarded Not Awarded Not Awarded
1985 The Bostonians James Ivory  United Kingdom
Ruthless Romance Eldar Ryazanov  Russia
1987 Farewell Green Summer Proshal Zelen Leta Elyer Ishmukhamedov  Russia
1996 Blush Li Shaohong  China
1998 The King of Masks Wu Tianming  China
2000 Karunam Karunam Jayaraj  India
Railroad Man Poppoya Yasuo Furuhata  Japan
2002 Letters to Elza Igor Maslennikov  Russia
2003 At Five in the Afternoon Panj é asr Samira Makhmalbaf  Iran /  France
2004 The Beautiful City Shah-re ziba Asghar Farhadi  Iran
2005 Iron Island Jazireh ahani Mohammad Rasoulof  Iran
2006 The Old Barber Hasi Chaolu  China
2007 The Wall Lin Chih Ju  Taiwan
2008 Tulpan Sergei Dvortsevoy  Kazakhstan /  Russia
2009 Cannot Live Without You Leon Dai  Taiwan
2010 Moner Manush Gautam Ghose  India
2011 Porfirio Alejandro Landes  Colombia /  Argentina
2012 Anhe Ghore Da Daan Gurvinder Singh  India
2013 Beatriz's War A Guerra da Beatriz Luigi Acquisto / Bety Reis  Timor-Leste
2014 Leviathan Leviafan Andrey Zvyagintsev  Russia
2015 Embrace of the Serpent El abrazo de la serpiente Ciro Guerra  Colombia
2016 Daughter Dokhtar Reza Mirkarimi  Iran
2017 BPM (Beats per Minute) Robin Campillo  France
2018 Donbass Sergei Loznitsa  Ukraine
2019 Particles Les particules Blaise Harrison  France /   Switzerland
2020 Into the Darkness De forbandede år Anders Refn  Denmark
2021 Ring Wandering リング・ワンダリング Masakazu Kaneko  Japan
2022 I Have Electric Dreams Tengo sueños eléctricos Valentina Maurel  Spain
2023 Endless Borders Abbas Amini  Iran

Discontinued awards

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Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film)

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Edition Film Director Country
3rd Nirjan Saikate Tapan Sinha  India
4th Man and the Crow (Short Film)  Sri Lanka
29th Paper Airplanes Farhad Mehhranfar  Iran
45th Ek Hazarachi Note Shrihari Sathe  India
Edition Film Country
3rd Cyclone  Cuba
4th Taking off at 1800 Hours  Cuba
5th Automatic  Czechoslovakia
6th After the Silence  India
7th An Encounter with Faces
Olympic Games
 India
 Poland
8th A Period of Transition  Denmark
9th Not Awarded Not Awarded
10th Narcissus  Canada
11th Not Awarded Not Awarded

Other awards

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Special Awards for Short Films at the 42nd IFFI

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  • Vasudha award for “A Pestering Journey” by K. R. Manoj
  • Second prize of Golden Lamp Tree: “Another Planet” by Smita Bhide
  • Silver Lamp Tree award: “Crazy Beats Strong Every Time’ by Mool Monson
  • International Jury Prize: “Khule Darwaze” by Ashish Pande
  • Special Jury Prize: "Anthony Gonsolves" by Ashok Rane

References

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  1. ^ "Directorate of Film Festival" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. ^ "International Film Festival in India". rrtd.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 November 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. ^ "One of Asia's First Film Festivals – IFFI over the years". 3 October 2017. Archived from the original on 8 January 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Key highlights of the 46th International Film Festival of India". PIB. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  5. ^ a b Saverio Giovacchini; Robert Sklar (1 December 2011). Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 179–. ISBN 978-1-61703-122-9. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Directorate of Film Festival" (PDF). iffi.nic.in. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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