And here goes this years Award-Winers..

The Best Short Fiction – Kadaltheerathu/ On Seashore Directed by Sherry, Produced by Lakshmanan Shyju Based on a story by OV Vijayan, Vellyiyappan’s son is being hanged to death. And Vellayiyappan is on a lonely journey from his remote village to the prison to receive his son’s body.

Best Short Documentary – Morality TV and the loving Jehad ( A Thrilling Tale )
directed by: Paromita Vohra
Producer: PSBT

The film looks outside the frames that weave the frenetic tapestry of Breaking News on India’s new channels to uncover a town’s complex dynamics – the fear of love, the constant scrutiny and control of women’s mobility and sexuality, a history of communal violence, caste brutalization and feudal equations.

Best Long Documentary – The Mahua Memoirs: Directed by Vinod Raja Produced by: Equations, Grass roots media Pvt. Ltd

Through stories and songs the film unravels, unfolds the struggles of the Adivasis or the tribes aganist the state and the mining companies. When a nation begins to grow rapidly at over 9 percent, what does that mean for 8 percent of people, who remain unseen and unheard?

Best Animation Film to be shared by Mukund and Riaz directed by Nina Sabnani and Shadow directed by Varun Jyoti Deori

Mukund and Riaz : Set Aganist the background of the partition, the film is about friendship between children. Their freindship knows no barbed wire fencing. The film is essentially about every child’s right to friendship and home.

Shadow : This movie shows war as a soul that always roams around in search of a body to make war. And after making war with the help of that body, it abandons the body, in search of a new body.