MIFA – Celebrate Cinema’s Brilliance : MUMBAI Awards

Winners – MUMBAI International Film Awards- 2026:
…Empowering Filmmakers’ Dreams..

Short Film:-
Best Short Film Award –
1) The Wall (Israt Jarin)
2) Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)
3) Justice (Brian Deatt)4) Viola (Janine Piguet)

– Best Director Award –
1) Happy Birthday (Rishiraj Pandey)
2) Wonderseekers (Michele Lanubile)
3) Die Wendezeit (Time of Change) (Boris Wolffgardt)

– Best Writer Award –
1) Mori/Vivere (Serhat Altun)
2) Invisible Hurt (Vinod Tiwari)
3) A MOTHER’S LOVE (Harald Schwarzenbacher | Writer: Gregor Schmidinger)

– Best Acting Award –
1) An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn, )
2) Aging Dreams (Director, Writer: Srinivasa Bobbili | Actor: Ridham Kamra)
3) THE TENDER ONES WILL TRIUMPH (Director, Actor: Francisco Bassignana)
4) AM (Alexia Vasiliou)

– Best Screenplay Award :
1) TRUST (Director, Writer: Ambrisha M | Producer: Dr. Shreyas R)
2) FOR MY ELA (Director, Writer: MALLIKA PRASAD SINHA)
3) Children at the rooftop cinema (侑紀 刷場)
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Feature Film: 
– Best Feature Film Award :
1) Drunken Disciple (Ga-eul Chung)

– Best Director Award :
1) This is not Fair (Camille Dubois)

– Best Screenplay Award :
1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)
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Documentary:
Best Documentary Award:
1) LA LIXEIRA – the invisibles’ dignity (GUIDO GALANTE, ANTONIO NOTARANGELO)
2) I am only a duck (Director: Fran Ruiz | Writer: Julia Elizalde)

Best Director Award:
1) Journey to Knowledge: Andalusia (Sedat BENEK)
2) The Wheelchair Mafia (Director: Cade Martin | Producer: Malvina Martin)

Best Documentary Short Film Award –
1) The Deep Dive (Blair Murphy)
2) Buenos Aires: Tango of Passion (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)
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Animated Short Film:
– Best Animated Short Film Award –

1) Pistis Poiesis (Nitin Venkatesan)
2) HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA -the solitary bee- (ERWAN LE GAL)
3) Liangzhu: a lost orphan (Dike Lei)4) SPACEMETERY (Stephen Shelton)

– Best Director Award –
1) dystopia (bellopropello)
2) Neurons (Publio César de la Vega García)
3) Zhong Kui Slaying Demons (Director: 小东 王)
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BEST AI Film Animator AWARD :
1) Vaigai Karai Kaatrae Nillu (Seattle Siva Paramasivan)
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Experimental Short Film:
– Best Experimental Short Film Award –
1) RYSE of the 1NES (Jason Caston)
2) To be continued…(Narine Gevorgyan)
3) Acting Psycho (Trix StarT)
4) DYNAMICS (Teo Baehler)

– Best Director Award –
1) Refugee (Özlem MENGÜKAN)
2) Absence (Monica Ravalico)
3) Walking (Carlos Trindade )
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– Music Video:-
Best Music Video Award
-1) The Perfumed Garden – by Ananda Xenia Shakti/Love Power The Band (Ananda Xenia Shakti)
2) Time Settles (Julia Gromskaya)

– Best Director Award –
1) VANDE MATARAM – Lieutenant Norman Bhairava (Goutham Kool Monkk)
2) Smoke Of Vengeance (Luke Sydney)

Screenplay Category:
– Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Feature) –
1) Battle of Planets: The 4th Circle of Hell (Rain Story)
2) Visum Infinitum/ View of Infinity (Jorge Troncone Osorio)
3) 10 Reasons Why I’m a Bad Idea (Sam Speron)
4) Forty Nine Degrees of Separation (John Croll Walsh)
5) Escape to Alcatraz (Eugene Hattingh)

  – Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Short) –
1) A=AA (Goutham Kanade)
2) PANTHEON (Tayfun Uçar)
3) THE ONE WHO STAYS IN ME (Jayanth Gowdra Sadashivappa)
4) Wildflower (Peter Salisbury)
5) Durning Road (Paula McCool)
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Trailer:- Best Trailer Award –
1) The Telescope and The Straw Hat (Sakumo Takamine)
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Best Smartphone Short Film Award –
1) OVERTHINKING (Gianmaria Fiorillo)
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Special Awards –
Best Short Film Award :
1) Paharganj to Phuket (Director, Writer: Jai Batra | Producer, Actor: Vheer)
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Best Documentary Film Award :
1) RMV The Kingmaker (Director: Binu Subramaniyam | Producer: Thangaraj Veerappan | Cast: Arulalar Ayya R M Veerappan, Rajinikanth)
2) “THE HANDS OF LIFE” Ancient healing secrets ( Fabio Floris | Producer: Smita Naram, Fabio Floris)
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Special Jury Award –
1) Dharau (Manish Suresh Shinde)
2) RMV The Kingmaker (Director: Binu Subramaniyam | Producer: Thangaraj Veerappan | Cast: Arulalar Ayya R M Veerappan, Rajinikanth)
3) “THE HANDS OF LIFE” Ancient healing secrets ( Fabio Floris | Producer: Smita Naram, Fabio Floris)
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Special Jury Award – 
1) Dusra Mauka (Abhishek Kumar Pandey)
2) Between Sand and Skyline (Sherin Paul)
3) An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn)
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– Best Director of the Year Award:
1) KUDAI VALLAL (UMBRELLA PHILANTHROPIST) (NAWIN SEETHARAMAN)
2) KADIN (Veyis Sarıkaya)
3) When we die again (Mudassar Mazhar khan)
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– Best Debut Director of the year Award –
1) Hard Mouth (Alexandre Dal Farra)
2) Another Chance: Ajamila’s Story (Iuliia Broslavskaia)
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– Best Actor/Actress of the Year Award:
1) Devil’s Game (Director: Tereza Hirsch | Actress: Anuschka van Lent)
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– Best Screenwriter of the Year Award:
1) Avalokana (Rakshith Shivakumar)
2) MEON – Heart of the Galaxy (George Sommer)
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– Best Screenplay of the Year Award –
1) Secrets of Montmartre 4 (Michelle Lynn)
2) The Iditarod Band (Michael Meyers)
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– Best Story of the year Award –
1) The Secret Life of Anjali (Kevin K. Shah)
2) Land of the Mustaches (Writer, Producer, Actor: Rutanya Alda | Director: Leon Joosen)
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Best Short Film of the year Award :
1) Dusra Mauka (Abhishek Kumar Pandey)
2) HIZR (Lavish Jindal)
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– Best Drama Film of the year Award –
1) Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)
2) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)
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– Best Foreign Film of the year Award –
1) Insulation (Arken Wheeler)
2) Enemy Heroes (Mark Diamond)
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Best Foreign Short Film Award : 
1) Detention (Bud Patel)
2) Let’s go! Love Ishinomaki “United smiles across the world” (TOMOHISA ISHIGAMI)
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– Best Filmmaker of the year Award –
1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)
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– Best Film on Social Issues Award –
1) VELIA TITTA WIDOW MATTEOTTI (vittorio pavoncello)
2) Samadhi Part 4 “Sadhana” (Daniel Schmidt)
3) I am no Queen (Director: Shadab Khan | Writer: Shadab Khan, Minu Basi)
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Best Romantic Film of the year Award:
1) An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn)
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Humans of Bollywood Award –
1) Special Agent Roy (Dharmendra Moolwani)

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