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MIFA - Mumbai International Film Awards

Entries open for 2025-2026 Edition - Submit your precious Short or Mid or Long Length Films - Filmfreeway.com/MumbaiFilmAwards

Event venue: MCCIA Hadapsar Auditorium : Address: Plot No. 7, A, HADAPSAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE-2, 3, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Hadapsar, Pune, Maharashtra 411013 Phone: 020 2687 7010 | www.MCCIAPUNE.com

Winners - MUMBAI International Film Awards - February 2025:
...Empowering Filmmakers' Dreams..

Short Film:
- Best Short Film Award -
1) Prowl (Director, Writer: Rohit Menon | Production: Fenomenon Creative, Liya Movie Company) 
2) Falamus (Paolo Lubinu)

- Best Director Award -
1) Serendipity's book (Ahana Rishi Punjabi)
2)  Tucked In (Lar Collicott)

- Best Writer Award -
1) Mother of Rose (Lora Dekova, Kameliya P. Petrova)
2) PARTY ANIMAL (Vaskar Dutta)

- Best Editor Award -
1) Paradise (Jai Mession)
2) Tumhare Khat- Your Letters (Director: Gautam Chaturvedi | Bikash Kumar Varma, Abhay Vyas)

- Best Cinematographer / DOP Award -
1) The Mirror Room (Prateek Kumawat)
2) Levi By The Sea (leping cao)

- Best Actor Award -
1) Gary and Randy (Director : Lary Campbell | Actors: Gerald Prince, Lary Campbell )
2)  Sunny-Man (Director, Writer: Sandeep Reddy Sama | Actor: Hanu Vihar )

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Feature Film:
  - Best Feature Film Award :
1) College Triangle (Zahra Barakat)
2) Land of West (Harper Berton)

- Best Director Award :
1) Dream Land (Sio-Yun Jung)
2) Hyderabad Nights (Sagar YVV)

- Best Writer Award :
1) Rotten Society (SS Jishnu Dev)
2) L.A. 4ORCE (Giovanni M Zelko)

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Documentary :
- Best Documentary Film Award  -
1) AN LA STORY: The Making of the "Notes from the New World" (Vitaly Sumin)
2) My Father: The Healer (Nick Conedera, Tom Pritchard | Producer: Paola Diflorio, Peter Rader)

- Best Director Award -
1) The Spinning Experience (Director, Producer: Pankaj Sekhsaria | Editor: Pradeep Patil)
2) THE MIRROR PARAJANOV (Jérôme AMIMER)

Best Documentary Short Film Award -
1) Piece of light (Narine Gevorgyan)
2) "Chota Bheem" The Snared King of Bandhavgadh (Anshuman Sharma)
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Animated Short Film:
- Best Animated Short Film Award -
1) तहानलेली हाक/Tahanlelee Haak (Apurv Anil Gautam)
2) Not Okay (Shariq Puthen peediakkal)
3) Gaze at you (SHIH-HAN HUANG, YU-QI PENG)

- Best Director Award -
1) shadowland (bellopropello )
2) HAPPYLANDS (LENG CHIANG)
3) Future Machine (CAN-YAO LIN)
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Experimental Short Film:
- Best Experimental Short Film Award -
1) Dream Retreat (Arken Wheeler)
2) "MadMind" (Mimi Garrard)


- Best Director Award -
1) Re-Routing (Kankana Chakraborty)
2) Enchanter (Narine Gevorgyan)
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- Music Video:
- Best Music Video Award -
1) What The Troll? (Singer, Song: Shweta Harve | Music: Dario Cei)
2) America, I Can't Breathe (Director: Corey Brown  | Writer: Sandra Anderson (O'Neal))

- Best Director Award -
1) Custodian (Dhiraj Pankhawala)
2) Trembled (Leo Hughes)

- Best Lyrics Award -
1) Spanosha (Esteban Perez)
2) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)
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Web Series:
- Best Web Series Award -
1) Random Addicts - Season 1 (Igor Moreira)
2) My travel guide - Web Serial - Season 1 (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)
3) Questwalker - Reverend's Journey (Dalton Chase Crawford)
4) Cyber-psycho Chronicles (Harry Keane)
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Screenplay Category:
- Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Feature) -
1) kali (Desirée Malinowski)
2) Misty Morning (Anselmo Garcia)
3) Hercules and Me  (Subhranil Dhar)

  - Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Short) -
1) The Mysterious Number 80 Crantham Street (Sharon Woodward)
2) My Mother, My Self (Lary Campbell)
3) Acclimation (Cait Leigh)

- Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Teleplay/ Web) - 
1) Journey Through the Dark (ERIN CUELLAR)
2) A Change of Heart (Anselmo Garcia)
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Best Dialogues Award -
1) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (Writer: DIWAKAR PRAVEEN | Director: JULEE JASMIN | Producer: SALIM AKHTAR)
2) Agarbatti (Director, Writer: Tushar Borude)
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Ad Film (Social / Commercial):
- Best Ad Film Award -
1) Atmosphere (Fatima Habib)
2) BREAK THE SILENCE (Dax Phelan)
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Film Poster:
- Best Film Poster Award -
1) Brave Soldiers (Lingling zhāng)
2) Eastern Roots (Nisha Patil)

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Trailer:
- Best Trailer Award -
1) L.A. 4ORCE (Giovanni M Zelko)
2) Ek Kasturi (Kavita Sharma)

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Smartphone Short Film:
- Best Smartphone Short Film Award -
1) Ring the Bell (Xinlu zhào)
2) Grow Your Own Ideas (Shridhar Nagraj)
3) Step Up (Alamilla Luis)

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Special Awards -
Best Short Film Award :
1) Staten Island Ghost Story (Vincent J Mazella)
2) With Love, Mum (Shreya Kundu)

Best Director Award :
1) Sholem Soul Goal (Devora Benchimol)
2) Brewing Kindness (Ahana Punjabi)

Best Screenplay Award :
1) In The Garden (Christal Kahles-Jones, Kathy Krantz Stewart)
2) Dance (Ido Dvora)

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Special Jury Award -
1) L.A. 4ORCE (Giovanni M Zelko)
2) Water Vapor (Martin Haag)
3) Seconds in Eternity (Director: Christian Schu )
4) The Big Show (Diego Capomagi)
5) My Father: The Healer (Nick Conedera, Tom Pritchard | Producer: Paola Diflorio, Peter Rader)

Special Jury Award - 
1) Staten Island Ghost Story (Vincent J Mazella)
2) In The Garden (Christal Kahles-Jones, Kathy Krantz Stewart)
3) Hyderabad Nights (Sagar YVV)
4) Exfil (Naseer Haider Siddiqui)
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Best Film of the Year Award -
1) Peepal (Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule)
2) Famous Road (Edith Walker)
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- Best Director of the Year Award
1) Jhankar - the melody of resonance (Hem Chandra Borah)
2) My Lovely Therapist (Igor Moreira)
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- Best Debut Director of the year Award -
1) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (JULEE JASMIN)
2) PRESENT PAST (N. Salma Bynes)
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- Best Actor of the Year Award
1) Lotus (Director, Actor: Bryce Mackie)
2) influence of culture in my life (Divya P Sharma)
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- Best Screenwriter of the Year Award
1) Spoons, Sporks & Broken Sprockets (Rain Story)
2) The Long Dark (Ruben Solano)
3) Death By Night (Kristian James)
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- Best Screenplay of the Year Award -
1) LOVE EXPERIMENTS (Andry Platrites)
2) Two Old Libbies 2 (Rain Story)
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- Best Story of the year Award -
1) Jhankar - the melody of resonance (Hem Chandra Borah)
2) In The Garden (Christal Kahles-Jones, Kathy Krantz Stewart)
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- Best Editor of the Year Award :
1) Roaming Around (Zainab Rafiq)
2) Walkers (william m mesa)
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- Best Cinematographer of the Year Award -
1) Terahavi Manzil (Kavish Sinha)
2) Seconds in Eternity (Director: Christian Schu )
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- Best Music of the Year Award -
1) Ram Aaye (DJ VaibhaV Thakar)
2) Carol (George A Johnson)
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- Best Sound of the year award -
1) BREAK THE SILENCE (Dax Phelan)
2) This Way (Enrique Sánchez)
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Best Singer of the year Award :
1) America, I Can't Breathe (Director: Corey Brown  | Writer: Sandra Anderson (O'Neal))
2) Carol (George A Johnson)
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Best Producer of the year Award :
1) Peepal (Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule)
2) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)
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Best Short Film of the year Award :
1) Bundle of Joy (dhivya jothi ravishankar)
2) No Words (Martin Haag)
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Best Feature Film of the year Award:
1) River of Life (Yasmin Kadir)
2) GURUJI NAMASKAR (JITENDRIYA PRADHAN)
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- Best Documentary of the year Award -
1) Chanting of the Dunes (Mokhless Al-Hariri)
2) SABAH DRAGONBOAT (Captain Denil Choong Lin Loong)
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- Best Drama Film of the year Award -
1) Seconds in Eternity (Director: Christian Schu )
2) The Influenced (Dwij Patel)
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- Best Animator of the year Award -
1) Sholem Soul Goal (Devora Benchimol)
2) In Half (Jorge Morais Valle)
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Best Film Production of the year Award -
1) Dressing Up (Kriti Kumar Lunkad)
2) Cyber-Psycho Chronicles (Harry Keane Production (HK), GemStar Studios)
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- Best Foreign Film of the year Award -
1) IRISO (Mitsuo Kurihara)
2) What really makes us happy (Michael Hoch)
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Best Foreign Short Film Award : 
1) Dead Note (Ruben Solano)
2) Straight Forward (Catherine Johnson)
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- Best Filmmaker of the year Award -
1) Hall of Fame (Manuel Garcia)
2) LOST WORLD 2020 (MITRA MAZUMDER)
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- Best Film on Social Issue Award -
1) When I'll be capable of love (Giulia Brazzale)
2) Neev Se Nayi Udaan Tak (Pratyush Tyagi)
3) Gaav Bolavato [The Village Calls] (Vinod Manikrao)
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- Best Sci-Fi Film of the year Award -
1) Higher Vibes (Haruka Kobayashi)
2) Blue Water (Iman Bishara)
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Best Comedy Film of the year Award -
1) Half Way Done (Vishwas Chavan)
2) Staten Island Ghost Story (Vincent J Mazella)
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Best Romantic Film of the year Award:
1) Coupling (Amandeep Singh)
2) Alone (Blake Robinson)

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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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EVENT VENUE: MCCIA Hadapsar, Plot No. 7, A, HADAPSAR INDUSTRIAL ESTATE-2, 3, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Hadapsar, Pune, Maharashtra 411013

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