National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film

National Film Awards

The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it is administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.Every year, a national panel...

– Best Non-Feature Film is given by the Directorate of film festivals under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)

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. The winners are given a Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) and a cash prize of Rs.1,00,000.

Winners

List of winners by year of awards:

Year	Film	Language	Director
2009	AFSPA, 1958	Manipuri, English	Haobam Paban Kumar
2008	Hope Dies Last in War	English	Supriyo Sen
2007	Bishar Blues	English	Amitabh Chakraborty
2006	Riding Solo to the Top of the World Riding Solo to the Top of the World Riding Solo to the Top of the World is a documentary film on the Chang pas of Ladakh, in India, about a journey of self-discovery.-Plot summary:...	English	Gaurav A Jani
2005	Girni	–	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni is a Marathi film director.He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India , Pune.He is known for notable Marathi films such as Valu - The Wild Bull and Vihir - The Well. Girni, Three of Us, Vilay and Gaarud are the short films directed by him. Girni won the...
2004	War And Peace Kaya Poochhe Maya Se	English Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan is an Indian documentary filmmaker, known for his activism through social action documentaries on topics such as corruption, slum dwellers, nuclear arms race, citizen activism and communalism... Arvind Sinha
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2002	Sonal	–	Prakash Jha Prakash Jha Prakash Jha is an Indian film producer-director-screenwriter, who is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan and multistarrer hit movie Raajneeti...
2001	Rasikpriya	–	Arun Vasant Khopkar
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1994	Maihar Raag	Hindi	Arun Bhattacharjee
1999	In the Forest Hangs a Bridge	English	Sanjay Kak Sanjay Kak Sanjay Kak is an independent documentary film-maker whose recent film Words on Water on the anti-dam movement in the Narmada Valley in Central India has been widely screened in India and abroad, including at film festivals in Durban, Hong Kong, Locarno and Turin...
1997	Sham's Vision	English	Shaji N. Karun Shaji N. Karun Shaji Neelakantan Karun is a National Award-winning Indian film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival...
1989	Siddheshwari Kanaka Purandara	– Kannada	Mani Kaul Mani Kaul Mani Kaul was an Indian film director of Hindi films. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India where he was a student of Ritwik Ghatak and later became a teacher. Started his career with Uski Roti , which won him the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, he went on to win... Girish Karnad Girish Karnad Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...
1982	Face After Storm	English	Prakash Jha Prakash Jha Prakash Jha is an Indian film producer-director-screenwriter, who is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan and multistarrer hit movie Raajneeti...
1974	My King of Drums	English	Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta Buddhadeb Dasgupta is a poet and prominent contemporary Indian filmmaker, most known for films like Bagh Bahadur, Tahader Katha, Charachar and Uttara...

Winners

See also