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BEST SHORT FILMS

	Le Grand Sault (Canada) LE GRAND SAULT Director: Herve Demers Category: Short Fiction Duration: 15 min, Country of origin: Canada Synopsis : Wandering with her beloved near the rushing waterfall, a young woman has no idea that their peaceful meeting place will be the scene of immense turmoil.	Director Herve Demers

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM

Lamsena (India) LAMSENA Directors: Ravi Williams & Roshani Bhati Category: Documentary Duration: 26 min, Country of origin: India Synopsis : Lamsena is a beautiful love story of Tribe Baiga. This film also shows the flora and fauna of Makel hills and life style of Baiga and specially Baiga bridegroom called Lamsena.	Director Roshani Bhati	Director Ravi Williams

BEST DIRECTOR

	Vitthal, Director- Vinod C VITTHAL Directors: Vinoo Choliparambil Category: Short Fiction Duration: 15 min, Country of origin: India Synopsis : Following the death of his grandfather, as a part of religious rituals, Vitthal’s parents have shaved off his head. For Vitthal his world has shattered. Nothing can pacify the mind of this 12 year old child who feels humiliation, isolation and anger.	Director Vinoo Choliparambil

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

	Gaarud (India) Cameraman- Deepu S. Unni GAARUD Directors: Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Category: Short Fiction Duration: 11 min 35 sec, Country of origin: India Synopsis : Following the death of his grandfather, as a part of religious rituals, Vitthal’s parents have shaved off his head. For Vitthal his world has shattered. Nothing can pacify the mind of this 12 year old child who feels humiliation, isolation and anger.	Director Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

BEST SOUND

	Amfuem (Germany), Sound – Johannes Malfatti AMFUEM Directors: Rainer Strecker Category: Short Fiction Duration: 09 min, Country of origin: Germany Synopsis : A dancer, cocooned in a length of red fabric, hangs from the ceiling of an abandoned industrial warehouse. A violinist plays at the dancer in such a way that the knots of the fabric gradually begin to loosen, she begins to slip and at looks as if she might crash into the flooded floor of the warehouse.……………………….	Director Rainer Strecker

BEST SCRIPT

	La Condena (Spain) Script writer- Mario Del A Torre LA CONDENA (THE SENTENCE) Directors: Mario de la Torre Category: Short Fiction Duration: 14 min, Country of origin: Spain Synopsis : Story from a correction home where Papa, Maria and Isabel start a new day serving their respective sentences.	Director Mario de la Torre

BEST EDITING

	Dear Child Jesus (Spain) Editor- Jesus Perez-Miranda JESUSITO DE MI VIDA (DEAR CHILD JESUS) Directors: Jesus Perez-Miranda Category: Short Fiction Duration:10 min, Country of origin: Spain Synopsis : Jesus, a six-year-old child, wakes up in the middle of the night with an urgent need to pee. But his fear of the dark prevents him from crossing the long corridor. Influenced by his mother’s advice, he asks God for help in the hope that some kind of miracle might happen.	Director Jesus Perez-Miranda

SPECIAL JURY MENTION (INDIAN)

	Thira (India) THIRA (OPEN IT) Directors: S.Prince Ennnares Periyar Category: Short Fiction Duration:13 min 35 sec, Country of origin: India Synopsis : Based on legendary Saddat Hassan Manto’s classic and controversial short-story ‘Khol Do’, Thira exposes how communal violence can brutally affect individual lives. Setting this story against the backdrop of the Gujarat riots of 2002, captures the plight of a helpless old man whose only daughter has been brutally gang-raped.	Director S.Prince Ennnares Periyar

SPECIAL JURY MENTION (FOREIGN)

	Pago par aver (Pay per view) (Portugal) PAGO PARA VER (PAY PER VIEW) Directors: Curtas and Longas Category: Short Fiction Duration:06 min, Country of origin: Portugal Synopsis : This is a story of a 60 year old blind person who earns money from others compassion. One day he encounter with a man who takes him to a new experience of his life.	Director Curtas and Longas

BEST FILM RAJASTHAN

	Mandali ke badhte kadam- (Jal Bhagirathi Sansthan, Rajasthan) MANDLI KE BADTE KADAM Directors: Jal Chitran, Jal Bhagirathi Foundation Category: Documentary Duration: 4 min 42 sec, Country of origin: Rajasthan, India Synopsis : This short documentary illustrates the success story of community water management in a small village called Mandli in western Rajasthan. The film talks about the problems faced by the people and how with the formation of a Jal Sabha, a water users association, the people collectively overcome their problems by building a community pond to harvest rain water.	Director Jal Chitran, Jal Bhagirathi Foundation

CRITIC AWARD

	An affair with New York, Director- Naman Goyal AN AFFAIR WITH NEW YORK Directors: Naman Goyal Category: Short Fiction Duration: 15 min, Country of origin: U.S.A Synopsis : Is a comedy that revolves around Vikram Patel, an Indian student who comes to NEW YORK for studying film making. The story is about his struggle. In the journey of wanting to fit in the society and adjusting, Vikram falls in love with the NEW YORK CITY.	Director Naman Goyal

SPECIAL JURY AWARD - RAJASTHAN

	It can’t be Red, Director- Anurag Sharma IT CAN’T BE RED Directors: Anurag Sharma Category: Documentary Duration: min, Country of origin: India Synopsis : This documentary not only presents the original recording of Jaipur serial bomb blast on May 13th, 2008, just after the incident, but also investigate the situation arising out of it. This is an attempt to show the spirit of the solidarity and humanity even in the face of hardship, chaos and tension.	Director Anurag Sharma

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