National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film

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National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film
Type National
Category Short films
Instituted 1987
First awarded 1987
Last awarded 2013
Total awarded 29
Awarded by Directorate of Film Festivals
Cash award ₹10,000 (US$150)
Medal Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus)
First awardee(s) The Eight Column Affair
Recent awardee(s) Mandrake ! Mandrake !

The National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for Non-Feature Films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1987, at 35th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Awards

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Cash prize amount varied over the period. Following table illustrates the cash prize amount over the years:

Year (Period) Cash Prize
1987 (32nd) – 2005 (53rd) Producer and Director: Rajat Kamal and ₹10,000 (US$150) Each
2006 (54th) till date Producer and Director: Rajat Kamal and ₹50,000 (US$740) Each

Winners

Following are the award winners over the years:

Indicates a joint award for that year
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) Citation
1987
(35th)		 The Eight Column Affair [1] English FTII Sriram Raghavan <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its innovative use of cinematic techniques to put together a surrealistic collage of visual that add up to a delightfully brisk narrative, full of whimsical humour.
1988
(36th)		 The Story of Tiblu[2] Idu Mishmi Santosh Sivan for Films Division Santosh Sivan <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For telling the story of a spirited young tribal girl who comes into her own in the alien environment of an urban school, while retaining the innocence and sensitivity bred of living close to nature; and for capturing the freshness and spontaneity of its tribal actors in real life locations with enduring simplicity.
1989
(37th)		 Behula[3] Bengali Raja Mitra Raja Mitra <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a story well told.
1990
(38th)		 Aamukh[4] Hindi FTII Rajkumar <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For being a forceful statement of the personal rights of a woman through the emotional impact of one incident in which she rises against a social taboo.
1991
(39th)		 Punaravritti[5] Hindi FTII Imo Singh <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For delicating handling the loneliness and plight of an old woman who is forced ot relive emotions because of her overprotective nature.
1991
(39th)		 Totanama[5] Hindi Vikas Satwalekar Chandita Mukherjee <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its traditional style, narrative structure and good production values.
1992
(40th)		 Agar Aap Chahein[6] Hindi Shahnaz Rahim for Films Division Mazahir Rahim <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a moving story of a village community which has been saved from migration to a city by timely help from a bank for agricultural development.
1993
(41st)		 Sunday [7] Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Pankaj Advani <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For taking a total holiday from logic and inhibitions and creating a most entertaining and humorous fantasy which, with all its improbabilities, will succeed in casting a spell on its audiences.
1994
(42nd)		 Still Life [8]  • Hindi
 • English		 FTII Subhadro Chowdhary <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its stylistic sophistication in dealing with the chaos of painful experience.
1995
(43rd)		 The Rebel[9] Hindi John Shankarmangalam Rajashree <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For showing an adolescent's journey to maturity and his coming to terms with his mother.
1996
(44th)		 Vidiyalai Nokki [10] Tamil  • F and T
 • V. T. I. N. Chennai		 P. Venkatesh <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For making an eloquent statement on the gift of sight.
1996
(44th)		 Athmeeyam [10] Malayalam FTII Nandakumar Kavil <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For presenting a traditional artist's inner rebellion against the denial of his creative identity.
1997
(45th)		 Hypnothesis [11] Hindi FTII Rajat Kapoor <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a serious look, light heartedly presented, of the travesties of mass cinema.
1998
(46th)		 Jee Karta Tha [12] Hindi Mohan Agashe for Films Division Hansa Thapliyal <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its brilliant originality in delineating a small town milieu and in evolving a new cinematic idiom.
1999
(47th)		 Blind Folded[13] Tamil A. Sriram S. Sri Ram <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its creative controlled treatment of an emotional and socially relevant theme.
2000
(48th)		 Bhor[14] Bengali Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Ritubarna Chudgar <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its multi-layered treatment of a story that sketches the lives of two young people (sibling) caught in the web of their past and yet coping for survival.
2001
(49th)		 Chaitra[15] Marathi FTII Kranti Kanade <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For beautifully exploring human relations centred around an age-old ritual of Haldi and Kumkum.
2002
(50th)		 Sunder Jebon[16] Bengali Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Sandeep Chattopadhyay <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its sensitive and nuanced story about a writer and the sour taste of beauty. The film is notable for its technical excellence and the excellent synergy created by the young director Sandip Chattopadhyay and his colleagues from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute in Calcutta. This award applauds them all.
2003
(51st)		 Sati Radhika[17] Assamese Anjali Das Anjali Das <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For a popular tale relating to the great 14th century reformer Shankara Deva who stood against caste inequality. The tale narrates an allegory wherein Sati Radhika a fisherwoman perform a miraculous feat, which others could not, thus bringing out the noble concept of social equality.
2004
(52nd)		 Cradle Song[18]  • English
 • Hindi		 Tripurari Sharan for FTII Nimisha Pandey <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For exploring the mental agony of a couple, that has given birth to a crippled child in a very ethereal and stimulating cinematic style.
2005
(53rd)		 Thackkayin Meedha Naangu Kangal[19] Tamil  • Doordarshan
 • Ray Cinema		 Vasanth <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its moving and realistic depiction of pride, deprivation and emotion in a small coastal village of Tamil Nadu.
2006
(54th)		 Ek Aadesh: Command For Choti [20] Hindi Children's Film Society Ramesh Asher <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For sensitively bringing out the moral dilemma created by existence at a subsistence level in a hostile environment.
2007
(55th)		 Udedh Bun[21][22] Hindi FTII Siddharth Sinha <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For creatively portraying a young boy's dilemma as he comes face to face with the temptations of life. The film evocatively explores the erotic under‐currents in this coming of age tale.
2008
(56th)		 Stations[23][24]  • Hindi
 • Marathi
 • English		 FTII Emmanuel Palo <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For weaving a complex contemporary form of expression, through fragmented stories of a few sparsely connected lives in transit, over an omnipresent dark urban reality of economic disparity, alienation, and bad faith.
2009
(57th)		 Boond[25] Hindi Kumar Mangat Abhishek Pathak <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For "Wars will be fought for water", a story of the future set in a village starved of water, food and love.
2010
(58th)		 Kal 15 August Dukan Band Rahegi[26] Hindi FTII Prateek Vats <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
With energy and vigour, the documentary records very interesting images of a group of young students, who are trying to relate, with ideology of freedom and the stifling authoritarian reality. In the process, the life is entangled with intrigues and doubts.
2011
(59th)		 Panchakki[27] Hindi Sanjeev Rattan Sanjeev Rattan <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For creating a misty and magical world through simple and available cinematic tools. The film is an engrossing lyrical fantasy.
2012
(60th)		 Kaatal[28] Marathi FTII Vikrant Pawar <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
Rigorously crafted, the film explores an evolving relationship between two young people with rare maturity and restraint. Even while dealing with the very nebulous and the almost ephemeral, the film is meticulous in its expressions.
2013
(61st)		 Mandrake ! Mandrake ![29] Hindi FTII Ruchir Arun <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For the deftly crafted story of a young man who transforms a rundown warehouse into an Aladdin's Cave through the fun and frolic of the moving image where magic, mystery and adventure become possible.
2014
(62nd)		 Mitraa[30] Marathi Athaansh Communications Ravindra Jadhav <templatestyles src="Template:Hidden begin/styles.css"/>
For its empathetic portrayal of its pivotal character’s sexual orientation, and the question of freedom around it. Shot in monochrome, the film adds to the antiquity for the era it is set in.

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