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MIFA - Mumbai International Film Awards

Entries open for 2024-2025 Edition - Submit your precious Short or Mid or Long Length Films - Filmfreeway.com/MumbaiFilmAwards

Winners - MUMBAI International Film Awards - February 2024:
...Empowering Filmmakers' Dreams..

Short Film:
- Best Short Film Award -

1) Trickle (Jimmy Chao)
2) The Other Shore (xiao lei dong)

- Best Director Award -
1) HER LAST SHARE (ABHIJIT DASGUPTA)
2) Two worlds (Nithya Gopalakrishnan)

- Best Writer Award -
1)  All is Well (Director - Lauren Demarti - Writer- Susie Garcia)
2) The Other Shore (xiao lei dong)

- Best Editor Award -
1)  Do Not Answer (Kenzie J. Illnest)
2) Closet soon (Amelia Freddo)

- Best Cinematographer / DOP Award -
1) Living Vagabond Life (Dinesh Shivarkar)
2) Ultimate Punch (Akito Kobayashi)

- Best Actor Award -
1) Dosti Yari (Savita Deshmane)
2)  Lost in the woods (Charlie Allen)

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Feature Film:
  - Best Feature Film Award :
1) MUJHE SCHOOL NAHI JAANA. ( I don’t want to go to School ) (NIPON DHOLUA)
2) KRISHNAKRIPA SAGARAM (Director- ANISH VASUDEVAN  -  Writer, Producer - WING COMMANDER DEVIDASAN)

- Best Director Award :
1) Chal Zindagi (Vivek Sharma)
2) Happy Birthday (Joseph A Mauro, Ezekiel N Drews)

- Best Writer Award :
1) SHOCKING MARRIAGE  (Demetrio Casile)
2) The beginning of my new Life (Joél Sansi)

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Documentary :
- Best Documentary Film Award  -
1) VIVARTHAKAN-(The Translator) (Rafeek Pattery)
2) Timeless Grace (Amyn Anwar Khan)
3) Reverse Gear (Harun Javed)

- Best Director Award -
1) Animal Act (Fyodor Amakumov)
2) PROJECT "M" (Aneil Contractor)  
3) Drifting Land (Chiyo Watanabe)
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Animated Short Film:
- Best Animated Short Film Award -
1) Grandpa's Maltose (MING-YOU LIANG)
2) Hunting Fleet (Elsie Clarke)
3) Tomorrow (ZE LIN)

- Best Director Award -
1) Do Hanson Ka Joda (Pravesh Joshi)
2) Limelight (SIN-YU CHEN)
3) White Snow (Dominik Petrov)
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Experimental Short Film:
- Best Experimental Short Film Award -
1) The Flash (Momò Lee)
2)  Lost in Harmony (Sanjeev Venkataramanan, Ananthanarayanan SV)

- Best Director Award -
1) Shohar (Aqeel Badawi)
2) Bhago! Shikari Aaya (Satyabhama Kamble)
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- Music Video:
- Best Music Video Award -
1) Jiya Jaye Na! (Kusum Sinha)
2) Lucy (Roberto Pili)

- Best Director Award -
1) Dawn of Jungle (Abdul Qayyum Bilal)
2) Robo Cops (George Abbott)

- Best Lyrics Award -
1) I love your valentine (Yang Cao)
2) Matiche Sone (Gayatri Kalaskar)
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Web Series:
- Best Web Series Award -
1) Western Sounds (Kofi Abwao)
2) Trust Issues (Dmitri Mikhaylov)
3) Li & Friends (Chen Huang)
4) Southern Stories (Aneesh Selvaraj)
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Screenplay Category:
- Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Feature) -
1) LoveBeats (Chris Ross Leong)
2) The Pickleball Killer (Jim Carroll)

  - Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Short) -
1) After I was Divorced 
2) Kyoto Ways (Himari Shimizu)

- Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Teleplay/ Web) - 
1) Stranger Angel (Liu Wang)
2) Set Aside People (Catherine Stanley)
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Ad Film (Social / Commercial):
- Best Ad Film Award -
1) Oxford Investigation Service - Working Together to Combat Fraud (Sharon Woodward, Les Mara) 
2) Divine Cakes (Santosh Kale)
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Film Poster:
- Best Film Poster Award -
1) His Wax Museum (Kasturi Srivastava)
2) Stolen Life (Robert Easton)

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Trailer:
- Best Trailer Award -
1) Brother Pinto (Steven D'souza)
2) Anamika (Vishakha Yadav)

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Smartphone Short Film:
- Best Smartphone Short Film Award -
1) Understanding Life (Axana Vasiliev)
2) Strong Vibes (Oliver Evans)

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Special Awards -
Best Short Film Award :
1) The Sunshine Summit O’er the Mountain of Dishes (James Kirby)
2) Partly Cloudy & Hot (Moreetsi Gabang)

Best Director Award :
1) Mahoramatic (Kosuke Jodai)
2) ZAAG (Sanah Oberoi)

Best Screenplay Award :
1) Ku Ka Aa Ya (Bibil Varghese)
2) Tangled Tails (Oleg Condrea)

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Special Jury Awards -
1) A PROMISE TO THE WIND (Armando Di Lillo)
2) Appachante Christmas Visit (Grandfather's Christmas Visit) (Dr. Ciby Mathew)
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Best Film of the Year Award -
1) Untold Saga of India (Vikram Mishra)
2) Do Not Answer (Kenzie J. Illnest)
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- Best Director of the Year Award
1) Beautiful Gifts (Lucila Andrew)
2) ZAAG (Sanah Oberoi)
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- Best Debut Director of the year Award -
1) PRASAV - Ek Jarjar Sadak (Ajay Gupta)
2) Azap (Torment) (Anıl Şeddadi)
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- Best Actor of the Year Award
1) Chai Time (Aslam Shaikh)
2) Solo (Actor, Director - Andrea Torresani)
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- Best Screenwriter of the Year Award
1) Inside Of Me (Writer - Wendy Shipman - Director - Stephanie Greene)
2) Azap (Torment) (Dir- Anıl Şeddadi - Writer- Umut Şeddadi)
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- Best Screenplay of the Year Award -
1) Secret notes (Allen Shepherd)
2) Revenge never wins (Sujatha Nair)
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- Best Story of the year Award -
1) HER LAST SHARE (ABHIJIT DASGUPTA)
2) Tangled Tails (Oleg Condrea)
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- Best Editor of the Year Award :
1) African Trees (Hannah Brown)
2) THOOLIKA ( PEN ) (ROY MATHEW MANAPPALLIL)
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- Best Cinematographer of the Year Award -
1) My People My Land (Bao Zhu Liu)
2) Streetsmart (Nasrin Rizvi)
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- Best Music of the Year Award -
1) Lost in Harmony (Sanjeev Venkataramanan, Ananthanarayanan SV)
2) We Rise  (Gabriel Davila Luciano, Somdatta Pal )
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- Best Sound of the year award -
1) Shukrana (Hafiz Ali)
2) Olive Winds (Paula Garcia)
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Best Singer of the year Award :
1) Serene Flowers (Isabella Scott)
2) Interceptor (Pradip Gaikwad)
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Best Producer of the year Award :
1) Not Too Far Away From Paradise (Pranati Wadhwa)
2) Two worlds (gopalakrishnan ramamurthy, kalavathi selvarajan, Nithya Gopalakrishnan, lakshana gopalakrishnan)
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Best Short Film of the year Award :
1) Bahon ke Darmiyan (Lalit Verma)
2) True Relations ( Lily Gao Zhu)
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- Best Documentary of the year Award -
1) Oceans of Tomorrow (Keiko Hayashi)
2) People and Prisoners (Leila Sadeghi)
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- Best Drama Film of the year Award -
1) Still Alive (Avantika Chawla)
2) Happy Birthday (Joseph A Mauro, Ezekiel N Drews)
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- Best Animator of the year Award -
1) Gathering (Robert Allen)
2) Social Stability (Mirza Shaikh)
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Best Film Production of the year Award -
1) Silver Spoon (Camila Gomez)
2) Roshni (Pooja Verma)
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- Best Foreign Film of the year Award -
1) IL MORSO DEL RAMARRO (Maria Lodovica Marini)
2) Khadim (Ismil Al-Sarraj)
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Best Foreign Short Film Award : 
1) Late for Work (Allison M Zevallos  | Writer: Carlos A Serrano, Tom Charpentier )
2) Japan & Zen (Akimitsu Kimura)
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- Best Filmmaker of the year Award -
1) Drunken Animal (Olivia Smirnov)
2) MUJHE SCHOOL NAHI JAANA. ( I don’t want to go to School ) (NIPON DHOLUA)
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- Best Film on Social Issue Award -
1) Zindagi Dobara - Life Again (Amritpal Kaur)
2) Two worlds (Nithya Gopalakrishnan)

- Best Sci-Fi Film of the year Award -
1) Human Robot (Jacob Robinson)
2) The Spark (Lalit Uojjval)
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Awards

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Here we are for the filmmakers to support them to make their film career & journey of life more beautiful. So we share many official selections and many awards too to the selected works.

- Feature Films

Best Feature Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

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- Short Films - Documenatry Films

Best Short Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards
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Best Documentary Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

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Special Awards

Other Special Awards for particular categories -

Best Producer Awards  

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

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- Animated - Experimental

Best Animated Short Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Animator Awards

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Best Experimental Short Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Screenplay Awards

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Best Smartphone Short Film Awards
Best Director Awards
Best Writer Awards
Best Editor Awards
Best Music Awards
Best Actor/Actress Awards
Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards
Best Cinematographer Awards

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Web Series - TV Series

Best Web Series Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

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Best TV Series Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

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Best Screenplay Awards
Best Ad Film Awards
Best Trailer Awards
Best Film Poster
Best game Awards
Best Virtual Reality Film Awards

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- Music Video

Best Music Video Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

Best Singer Awards

Best Song Writer / Lyricist Awards

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- Screenplays -

Best Screenplay Awards

Best Story Award

Best Dialouge Writing Award

Best Concept Award

Best Theme Award

Rules & Regulations

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All Genres All Categories

Fiction    Non-Fiction    Feature / Full Length    Short Length    Mid Length   

Rules & Conditions:

Mumbai International Film Awards is open for feature films and short films of fiction, narrative, live, animation, documentary, experimental, smartphone, multimedia, as well as video-art, video clips, music, screenplays, narrative, commercial & social; national and international with all genres.
MIFA is the short form for Mumbai International Film Awards.

All cinematographic works must have been completed after January 1, 2009.
Responsible for the film: Any natural or legal person of any nationality can participate.

Number of films per representative: each artist can submit an unlimited number of films.


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Drama    Romance    Action    Comedy    Fantacy & All others   

The registration of films to the Festival takes place through all portals where we have officially listed our festival. We must receive confirmation of participation through one of these platforms, which includes an online link. The participant must ensure that the password does not change until the Festival ends.

The director or producer who holds the rights must register the film before our deadlines are mentioned on portals where we have listed our festival for submission.

We accept films with all Languages with English subtitles. even silent  films are most welcome.

All winning films will be given a digital Award Certificate in .Jpg format.  

Once the film is registered, it can not be withdrawn from the Festival's programming and fees will not be refunded.
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Selections:
Mumbai International Film Festival considers a feature film when the film lasts more than 50 minutes.
Indo Global International Film Festival  considers a short film up to a maximum of 50 minutes. Our Jury's decision about each and every film's selection or rejection is the final decision, there is no scope for any argument.


Fees:
The fees for the submissions are mentioned on the portal where filmmakers will submit the films. MIFA has the total rights to change the fees before, after & during the film festival, according to the situation.
We request you to see this process of film submission & selection with good sportsmanship. but if anything goes wrong the jurisdiction for the disputes will be Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. But we always want to support all filmmakers so together we will definitely win. We want to convey you the straight message that humanity & understanding is the key as we are here to support you.

Curator-ship: The Pre-Selection Committee will be made up of MIFA members, who will carry out their work according to the parameters of quality and creativity previously set by the Festival Management, to choose the OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE FESTIVAL.

Official Selection: The responsible for the selected film will be notified via email.
Jury: A qualified jury will evaluate the films of the OFFICIAL SELECTION to choose the winners for each category.
As we are the Online Film Festival, So we don't do the projection of films.
During the celebration of the festival, if needed, the organization reserves the right to exhibit the selected films in as many public sessions as it deems convenient, at no cost to the festival.
We only publish winners list (film names) on our website and keep it on the website for 15 days or if needed more. As this is our social initiative to support more and more filmmakers from all across the globe.


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