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Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam!! Yes the whole world is a one family; From the Spiritual soil of India. From the bottom of the heart, we believe that the whole humanity is a one family and an every individual human being is a beautiful character or a player with a supreme god particle,
who perform his or her great role on this global prosperous World Stage.

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GLOBAL INDIA International Film Festival

THE AWARD WINNERS for 2026 Edition –

GLOBAL INDIA International Film Festival

"Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam !! - The Whole World is a One Family"

a small Socio-Global initiative with a Big Heart...

Short Films:
BEST SHORT FILM:

a. the legend of hydn brÜk (La légende d’Hydn Brük) (Director: Omar Kahouadji )

b. Finding Hero (Director: Matt Coole | Writer: Mac Hightower, Keith Lawson, Alyson Renaldo )

c. My Heart (Director, Writer: Saarrh Kkashyap | Producer: Priya Paramita Paul, Saarrh Kkashyap)

d. el astrónomo (The Astronomer) (Director:Jose Ángel Ruiz Olivares)

BEST DIRECTION:

a. Malaal (Director: Abhishek Tata. Chirag Patel | Producer: Mushkan Arora)

b. Follycle (Director: Deanna Dewey)

c. Agrasandhani (Director: Eklavya)

d. Centica Emily Murdock (Director, Producer: Jaynit Prashant Parmar)

BEST ACTING:

a. Pseudo Life (Director: Amandeep Singh | Actor: Shivam Dev Singh)

b. THE CREATOR (Director, Actor: ARYASINH RAGHAVBHAI RATHOD)

c. Seconds in Eternity (Actors: Marina Welsch, Christian Schu)

d. 1930 (Director: Saandesh B Nayak | Actress: Vanitaa Pandey)

e. Wang Zian's Summer Vacation (Director: Weihua Feng | Actor: Zimo Liu)

BEST SCREENPLAY:

a. Shimaz (Writers: Abhishek Mantri, Shirshendu Bhattacharya)

b. P.O.V (Director: Abhinav Rakesh Khanna | Screenwriter: Jatin Ahuja, Suveer Bhambhani, Jehanbux Irani | Irani Cafe Entertainment)

c. Ek Suvarna Pravas (A Golden Journey) (Director, Writer: Swapnil Pagare | Northeast Ohio Marathi Mandal)

d. Kuch Rishtey, Kuuch Yaadein... (Writers: Shibu Sable, Jaideo R Hemady)

BEST EDITING:

a. DITTO (Suresh G)

b. The Drowning Fish (WeiHua Feng)

c. Dreams of Desire (Shihyun Wang)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

a. Maa Illu (Our Home) (Director, Writer, Cinematographer: I. ANDREW BABU)

b. DATE NIGHT (Director: Japhet Velazquez | Writer: Japhet Velazquez, Rajarajeshwari 'RJ' Ragampudi | Cinematography: Diana Dahllund )

c. Mahsati (Director: Suad Gara | DOP: Barbu Balasoiu)

BEST WRITER AWARD :

a. Huldredans (Director: Eskil Hoel Abrahamsen | Writer: Marie Randmæl, Eskil Hoel Abrahamsen, Thomas Husebø, Tarjei Sandvik Moe | Producer: Tommy Garland)

b. Circle of Thoughts (Keshav Prasad, Bhuvaneswari Anandan)

c. The Damoh Files (Director, Writer: Dr. RASHMI JETA, Assi. Director: NARENDRA ATHYA)

d. Aditya (Abhi Kandlakunta, Arpith Kandlakunta)

BEST DIRECTOR:

a. Dusra Mauka (Director: Abhishek Kumar Pandey)

b. A Long Night (Director: Atman Jhaa, Sonniya Guptaa | Producer: Vijaykumar Thakurdas Mirchandani, Sonniya Guptaa)

c. Mod (Turn) (Director: Amit Baidya)

d. A Man with A Nameplate (Director: Yatender Kumar Singh Solanki)

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FEATURE FILM :

BEST FEATURE FILM:

a. nueve auras (Nine Auras) (Director: Mariano Frigerio)

b. Paperheart (Director: Kristina Sarkyte)

c. Dharau (Director: Manish Suresh Shinde)

BEST DIRECTION :

a. SWAPNO UDAAN (Director: TULIREKHA ROY)

b. Celebration (Director: Mohankumar Padya)

c. la casa de bernarda alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) (Director: Marta-cora Castro)

BEST SCREENPLAY :

a. The Hitman's Shadow (Director: Jon Abraham | Writer: Scott Barrington)

b. Thiru.Manickam / Mr.Manickam (Director, Writer: Nanda Periyasamy | Producer: Ravikumar G.P.)

BEST ACTING :

a. A Great Master (Director: Himari Watanabe | Actress; Yuriko Takahashi)

b. Another Chance: Ajamila's Story (Director, Writer: Iuliia Broslavskaia | Actors: Andrey Konovalov, Lidiya Belskaya, Inna Shchedrova)

BEST DIRECTOR AWARD :

a. Last Note (Director: Kyoichi Komoto)

b. Malavazhi (Director: Boban Govindan | Producer: Devadasan Cheravath)

BEST WRITER AWARD :

a. Kaasra (Director: Vikas Vilas Misaal | Writer: Ravi Nagpure, Mahendra Patil)

b. Chuzhi (Director: Sumi Prasanth | Script: Sumi Prasanth, Story: Jagadeesh P K)

c. Cometa 1600 (Director: Alejandra Carmen Díaz)

DOCUMENTARY:

BEST DOCUMENTARY:

a. “THE HANDS OF LIFE” Ancient healing secrets (Director: Fabio Floris)

b. Kashmir 1947 (Director, Writer, Producer: Dr. Amarpreet KOUR, Hemant GOSWAMI)

c. Dream Factory (Director: Aarushi Nigam)

BEST DIRECTION:

a. Lost Haven (Director: Marisol Diaz)

b. Built on Hope (Director: Kathryn Elise Kovalenko)

c. A Park for Life (Director: DIOGO DINIZ GARCIA GOMES)

d. Kashmir 1947 (Director, Writer, Producer: Dr. Amarpreet KOUR, Hemant GOSWAMI)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:

a. Onchain Humans (Director: Jawna Standish)

b. '' De pad van de Goden; Shiva & Shakti '' (Director: Ginita Sunaina)

c. PURE WATER FOR EVERY HOUSE-हर घर शुद्ध जल (Director: Devendra Shivaji Jadhav)

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ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM:

a. The Error : Beyond Algorithm (Director: Dongkwan Kim)

b. VORACIOUS (Directors: Marie CLEACH, Mathis BOURGUET, Emma-Rose CHARLOT, Jade PERIGAULT, Stefana Antonia PINTILIE, Vassili TUROSTOWSKI)

c. Popped or Alive (Director: Dani Fevola | Producer: Megan Staton)

d. In Half (Director: Jorge Morais Valle)

BEST DIRECTION:

a. Mothers (Director: Publio César de la Vega García)

b. Enemy Heroes (Director: Mark Diamond)

c. The last memory (Director: Nathan CHAMBERLIN, Lili DROT, Pablo VAUTOUR, Marion ZUCCONI)

d. Walkers (Director: william m mesa)

BEST ANIMATOR AWARD :

a. तहानलेली हाक/Tahanlelee Haak (Apurv Anil Gautam)

b. Pink Reflections (Ojas Sharma)

c. Claire Voyance (In the spotlight) (Clara BULLIERE, Lou DELABRE, Olivia GAULTIER)

d. Comb Story (Ernesto Rodriguez Cruz)

BEST AI Filmmaker Award:

a. Dreamers (Director: Publio César de la Vega García)

b. I Finally... 我终于 (Director: Kavi Chua)

EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM:
BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM:

a. BAILABLE (SHRAWANEEY)

b. Super Turbo Jet Boats - Twist Of Lime (Daniel Stuelpnagel)

c. Mumbai 3:17 AM (Amol Muzumdar)

d. Stripes-time-25 (Mimi Garrard)

BEST DIRECTION:

a. Closure (Amandeep Singh | Samanya Pictures)

b. AAKHRI BHUL (Durvaank Jitendra Yerandkar | Disha Arvind Jain | KATHANTAR FILM)

c. The Mother of Exiles (Mimi Garrard)

d. Colors of Silence (Narine Gevorgyan)

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BEST MUSIC VIDEO:

a. Perfect Sign (Director: Shreeyas P, Kanu Chauhan)

b. VANDE MATARAM – Lieutenant Norman Bhairava (Goutham Kool Monkk)

c. YOU ARE SPECIAL (Director: Ilia Noyabrov | Producer: Semen Khanin | Singer: Anna Khanina)

BEST DIRECTION AWARD:

a. Hua Khwabeeda (Prashant Beybaar, Vishal Tiwari)

b. YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)

c. Journey at Present (filhàl) (Director: Rishi Gupta | Writer: Nakul Gupta, Rishi Gupta, )

BEST MUSIC AWARD :

a. Process - Architecture of Sound (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)

b. Smoldering-Smoldering (Director: Ilya Noyabrev | Vocalist: Anna Khanina | Producer: Semen Khanin | Music: Oleg Zholtikov)

BEST LYRICIST AWARD :

a. Impossible (Amariah Poni Lodiong)

b. What The Troll - Shweta Harve ft. Dario Cei (Shweta Harve)

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BEST WEB / TV SERIES:

a. The Smurfs Season 3 - Reaching For The Stars (Director: William Renaud | Producer: Véronique Culliford ) TV Series

b. Cyber-Psycho Chronicles (Harry Keane)

c. Sugar n Salt- 2 (Swapnil Vilas Zambare)

BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD :

a. MEON - Heart of the Galaxy (George Sommer)

b. WINGS (Neha A.)

- BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD (short screenplays):

a. The People Below (Sujith Rajendiran)

b. Rumors have a home here (Daniel Lester Phillips)

c. Hugoliad (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)

d. The List (Amitav Lahiri)

e. Xtraa Cover (Juben Alif)

- BEST SCREENPLAY (Teleplay)

a. The Disappearance Of...Dorothy Arnold (Brian Spatz)

b. Hit Me Episode 08 "Big Trouble In Little Niddrie" (Alex John Brown)

c. PANTHEON (Tayfun Uçar, Deniz Uçar, Güneş Çavuş)

d. Journey Through the Dark (ERIN CUELLAR)

e. The Immigrant Playbook (Amar C Bhakta)

BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD (Feature Screenplays):

a. DR BEE (IJJAGANI RAMBABU)

b. Escape to Alcatraz (Eugene Hattingh)

c. The Origins (Iris Vignola)

d. Theater 8 (John P Martinez)

e. The Winter Dance Party Tour-1959 (L J Coon, Donna L Cleaves)

f. California Listen (Darshana Nadkarni)

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BEST SMARTPHONE SHORT:

a. The Last Passenger (Subhankar Ghatak)

b. Wara Lagla Re... (वारा लागला रे…) (Haresh Gopinath Gamare)

c. The Last Time Your Name is Spoken (Amanda B Matthews)

d. Grow Your Own Ideas (Director: Shridhar Nagraj | Producer: Ritajaya Banerjee)

e. Ehsaas (Ajay B Jamkar)

BEST ACTOR AWARD :

a. M Marathi Cha (Director: Aakash Nagdive | Actor: Santosh Bhogade Patil)

b. 에프 더블유 비 FWB (Director: 성묵 임 Seong-mook Lim | Actor: 묵 성 Mokseong)

BEST AD FILM (Social/Commercial):

a. Building India From Its Roots (Vivek Jaiswal | Producer: HCL Foundation)

b. BREAK THE SILENCE (Dax Phelan)

BEST PHOTOGRAPHER AWARD :

a. “THE HANDS OF LIFE” Ancient healing secrets (Fabio Floris)

b. China (Emma Sywyj)

BEST MULTIMEDIA FILM AWARD :

a. The Vintage Japanese (Kavi Chua)

b. Sustainability Stories with Councillor Anna Railton & The Travel Buddies - Episode 3 (Sharon Woodward, Gemma Tregellas)

c. They saw you (Vittorio Caratozzolo & Class 3 A (2022-24))

BEST FILM TRAILER AWARD:

a. ARTHUR AVE. (Joey Medina)

b. Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj | Producer: Lalit Kohli, Akshay Bafila, Akshay Desai)

c. JANOSIK – Rise of the Legend (Director: Filip Moghrani | Writer, Producer: Angelika Doničová)

BEST FILM POSTER AWARD :

a. Hinterlander (Will St John Butler)

b. Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj | Producer: Lalit Kohli, Akshay Bafila, Akshay Desai)

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BEST FILM OF THE YEAR AWARD :

a. Land of the Mustaches (Director: Leon Joosen | Actor, Writer, Producer: Rutanya Alda)

b. Don't Love (Preminchoddu) (Director, Writer: Shirin Sriram)

BEST DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD:

a. Wrong Number (Akassh Siingh)

b. Staten Island Ghost Story (Vincent J Mazella)

c. The Ballad (Christofer Nilsson)

d. Maa Illu (Our Home) (Director, Writer, Cinematographer: I. ANDREW BABU)

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR AWARD:

a. RAKTBEEZ (Akassh Siingh | Producer: Rahul Bhardwaj, Pooja Bhardwaj)

b. The Expiry Date (Director: Binay Sarkar | Writer: Dimpal Saikia | Producer: Binay Sarkar, Ankit Baraskar)

c. EGWA (Director, Writer: V K Raju | Producer: Poorna Battu)

d. Tathagat (manav pandhi)

BEST FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY OF THE YEAR AWARD:

a. YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)

b. My boyfriend, a mannequin (Director: DMITRY NIKOLENKO | Writer: Aygul Utyaganova | Producer: Arseny Ovchinnikov)

BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS OF THE YEAR AWARD:

a. Malavazhi (Director: Boban Govindan | Writer: Rajesh Kurumali | Producer, Actor: Devadasan Cherevath)

b. TILAMSIK SA DAKILANG APOY (EMBERS OF THE GREAT FIRE) (Director: Francis Luscianne Javier Gacer | Actor: Ron Jordan De Ocampo)

c. Words Of Rage (Hemant M Pandya | Actress: Seema Chaudhary)

d. P.O.V (Director: Abhinav Rakesh Khanna | Actor: Jatin Ahuja, Avinash Dwivedi | Irani Cafe Entertainment)

BEST DOP / CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD :

a. EGWA (Director, Writer: V K Raju | Producer: Poorna Battu | DOP: Gopi Nimma)

b. M. S. T (Nicholas Aska | Karuna rani)

c. DAGPO'S LIVING LEGACY A Hidden Gem of Tibetan Traditions (Director, DOP: CHRISTIAN FIENGA | Producer: THE DAGPO EDUCATIONAL FUND)--

BEST EDITOR AWARD :

a. Grow Your Own Ideas (Director: Shridhar Nagraj | Editor, Producer: Ritajaya Banerjee)

b. Chhattisgarh Ke Bheem Chintaram (S Anshu Dhurandhar)

c. Peythozhinja Mazhayil (After the Rain) (Director: Indu Menon | Producer, DOP, Editor: Jay Menon)

BEST MUSIC AWARD :

a. Lata (Director, Screenwriter: Deepika Rajani | Story-Writer: Priya Deorukhkar | Music: Priyam Karekar, Siddhant Kandalkar)

b. Peythozhinja Mazhayil (After the Rain) (Director: Indu Menon | Producer, DOP, Editor: Jay Menon | Music: Abey Jacon, Binny Mathew, Jay Menon, Praveen Somasundaran, Sajay Kurup, Sojan Markose

BEST WRITER of the year AWARD :

a. Aranya Dhara (Writer: Siva Patcha)

b. MIND GAME (OMGURU (Priteshbhai Shah))

c. Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)

d. Red Hands, a Mary MacIntosh (MAUREEN MEEHAN)

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR AWARD:

a. ANNAYAA (Director: AADHYAA BHARADWAJ | Producer: AMBIKA MISHRA)

b. The Bombay Samachar (Director: Zahan Nikhil Sawhney)

c. SUDHAGAD 07 (Director: Dilip Jakkappa Rayannavar)

d. Mandi house ka mental (Director: Maahi Singh)

BEST SCREENWRITER of the year Award :

a. BUY OR DIE (ASAD KHAN, Pinaki Ghosh)

b. THE WITNESS (Lakiesha Edwards)

c. Whispers of Love (Michelle Lynn)

BEST PRODUCER OF THE YEAR AWARD :

a. What The Water Keeps (Director, Writer: Bramuda | Producer: Dendy Ariza Putra, Alhaj Fernando)

b. Anmol Virasat (Jainism in Tamil Nadu) (Director: Usha AbhayaKumar | Producer: Abhaya Kumar Srisrimal Jain)

c. Prabhat Pheri (Director: Mahendra Shrivas | Producer: Eesha Agrawal, Ankeet Mishra)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARD :

a. PARET (परेत ) (Director: Vartika Pande | Producer: Vijaya Bhasker)

b. Neev Se Nayi Udaan Tak (Pratyush Tyagi)

c. Varanasi - The City of Nirvana (Vikash Thakur).

d. Eighth Hill - A Sacred Revolution: Tirupati's Dream without Plastic (Vinay Kumar Sahu, Vamshi Krishna Pennakoduru)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM AWARD :

a. For The Love of Dogs (Mohanjeet Baldev Singh Kalsi)

b. The Spinning Experience (Director: Pankaj Sekhsaria | Editor: Pradeep Patil)

c. Delong Padung..The Jewel of North East India (Kamal Dayaram Nathani)

KRISHNA Global Filmmaker Award:

a. Seconds in Eternity (Christian Schu)

b. Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)

c. Samadhi Part 4 "Sadhana" (Daniel Schmidt)

d. Hinterlander (Will St John Butler)

e. The Krishna in You (Mudit Mathur | Producer: Jagriti Motwani)

f. MITTI (Discovering Ikigai) (Sangita Iyer)

Best Drama Film Award :

a. Uninvited Guest (Jijo Sengupta)

b. Lost and Found (Krishang Mehul Vadgama)

c. Danny MAlin (Danny MAlin)

Best Romantic Film :

a. AN AMERICAN ABROAD (Marcia Kimpton)

b. Wrong Number (Akassh Siingh)

c. My boyfriend, a mannequin (Director: DMITRY NIKOLENKO | Writer: Aygul Utyaganova | Producer: Arseny Ovchinnikov)

Best Children's Film Award:

a. Manu (Ganesh Pareek)

b. GURUJI NAMASKAR (Director: JITENDRIYA PRADHAN | Writer: SANKET KUMAR TRIPATHY)

Best Action Film Award :

a. Centica Emily Murdock (Director: Jaynit Prashant Parmar)

b. A Sword of Samurai (Director: Akari Ishikawa)

Best FILM on Social Message Award :

a. LOST WORLD 2020 (MITRA MAZUMDER)

b. KUMARI MATA - The Unnoticed Women (Director: Deepak Saini | Producer: vandana bhardwaj)

c. Saira Khan Case (SWATI CHAUHAN, KARAN RAZDAN)

Best Short-Film Director Award :

a. Circle of Thoughts (Bhuvaneswari Anandan)

b. INVISIBLE WOUNDS (Torsten Lang)

c. Living With Grandma (Finise Avery)

d. Tvam Ashwathama ? (Raj Kumar Yadav)

Best Foreign Language Film Award :

a. THE MARIANAS WEB (Marco Calvise | Writer: Andrea Cavaletto, Ruben Maria Soriquez, Marco Calvise)

b. el tiempo suspendido (SUSPENDED TIME) (Vargas Buendía)

c. Coming Out (Beatrice Campagna)

Global Film-Director Award :

a. reEarth ...Rights of Nature (Director: Dharma Pundarika | Producer: Nicola Melissian)

b. Bipolar What they don’t tell you (Duchess letitia Antoinette Kapuscinska)

c. Paranormal Party Thriller (Danny MAlin)

#GlobalIndiaFest #WORLDisOneFamily #VasudhaivaKutumbakam #Gratitude

We really wish to share international thinking which is developed in the form of films with the society and the young generation of humanity. Every human being has a unique story to tell, but few from them are capable to express their own to the world. But the Filmmakers are the great storytellers and world wants to watch their stories through films or digital media. Because they channelize & nurture these stories through films and our motto is to spread these stories from all across the world to the masses and especially to the youngsters. Filmmakers from all across the globe are respectfully welcome to share and submit your beautiful films into the GIIFF.

We understand that you understand the realm of understanding and so you have created your wonderful films with your conscious understanding.

Connecting World with India through Audio-Visual

Films are really a strong medium to share, yes to share, but what creates a filmmaker is a sense of what to share. Through vantage point we see that entertainment is just the medium to share realm of life with film lovers. If we penetrate the meaning of life sometime we feel that there is no such meaning or purpose to life, yes! Sometime, but we must have to give a great meaning or purpose to life to create it more beautiful for the whole world as a one family. for whole humanity or for our next generation.

We are really very small people; please understand what we want to say. But the task or mission which we want to empower is very big. One can understand it by the example of river. The beginning or origin of every river is so small but her consistency with selflessness leads her towards more hugeness.

Event venue: Sumant Moolgaonkar Auditorium, MCCIA Trade Center, A Wing, Ground Floor, ICC Complex, SB road, Pune, India || - More Details on - Filmfreeway.com/ GlobalIndiaFest