The country’s prominent National Film Awards were first presented in the year 1954. Since 1973 the award ceremonies are administrated by the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals. The national awards were introduced to honor and encourage the films directed across India which features Indian art and culture. Each year the government appoints a national panel to select the winning entry and the awards are handed out by the President of India to the winners for the year. The ‘Best Short Fiction Film’ award is one of the sub-categories of Non-Feature Film awards and was first introduced in 1986. The inaugural award was bagged by Rajan Khosa for the Hindi film ‘Wisdom Tree’. Rajan Khosa is an Indian writer, producer and director who has also worked in Europe and UK for the last decade.
National Award Winners For Best Short Fiction Film Are:
|
Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Language
|
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2009
|
Stations
|
Emmanuel Palo
|
-
|
|
2008
|
Udedh Bun
|
Siddharth Sinha
|
Bhojpuri
|
|
2005
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
2004
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
2003
|
Sundar Jeebon
|
Sandeep Chattopadhyay
|
Bengali
|
|
2002
|
Chaitra
|
Kranti Kanade
|
Marathi
|
|
2001
|
Bhor
|
Ritubarna Chudgar
|
Bengali
|
|
2000
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
1999
|
Jee Karta Tha
|
Hansa Thapliyal
|
Hindi
|
|
1997
|
Vidiyalai Nokki
|
Badri Venkatesh
|
Tamil
|
|
Atmeeyan
|
Nandkumar Kavil
|
Malayalam
|
-
|
|
1986
|
Wisdom Tree
|
Rajan Khosa
|
Hindi
|