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  I’m honoured& happy to be part of this festival for another year! My newest art house feature received 2 awards. May CSIFF continue to generate peace and love! Thank you! Wesley RickertFilm Director, Art House Films, Canada

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Previous Edition: AWARD WINNERS 2026 – CSIFF

CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI International Film Festival – “Nainam Chhindanti Shastrani”

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SHORT FILM :

BEST SHORT FILM –

01. RAT (Director: AKSHAT ASOLKAR)

02. Payraw (Director: Makarand Lingnurkar | Writer: Prajakta Ramakant Tawade)

03.Quimera (Chimera) (Fernando Corta Andrés López)

BEST DIRECTION –

01. Nebula (Director, Writer: Sharlee Deshmukh)

02. When we die again (Director: Mudassar Mazhar khan)

03. THE HEAT (Vasant Soman | White Water Stories)

BEST ACTING –

01. SWAP (Director, Writer, Actor: SATISH MOHAN)

02. Aging Dreams (Director: Srinivasa Bobbili | RIDHAM KAMRA)

03. The Wall (Director: Israt Jarin | Actor: suman kumar das)

BEST SCREENPLAY –

01.Hirva Sona (Green Gold) (Shendge Karan)

02. Alankar (Uttam Patil)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY –

01. We Meet Again (Marcus Armand Siler, Nazarene Rhodes)

02. el cuero (Skinned) (Jose Tomas, Urrutia Goldsack, Hans Von Marées Peede) (DOP: Manuel Vlastélica)

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DOCUMENTARY

BEST DOCUMENTARY –

01. Turiya – The Life and Teachings of Ramana Maharshi (Director: Leif Heimbold | Producer: Daniel J. Schmidt, Leif Heimbold)

02. Twin Tongues (Iliana Pagán Teitelbaum)

BEST DIRECTION –

01. HITCH 60 (Sara Al Obaidly)

02. Dream Factory (Aarushi Nigam)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT –

01. Thirsty DATA (rahul vishawanath mali)

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ANIMATED SHORT FILM –

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM –

01. Enemy Heroes (Director: Mark Diamond | Animator: Joel Christopher Payne)

02. World Naked Bike Tour (William Bradford)

03. Holy Algorithm (YEN-JUNG CHEN, PEI-LING CHEN)

04. Reignite (CHIA-CHIEN WU, HENG-HAO WANG, JU-YIN CHANG)

BEST DIRECTION –

01. In Half (Jorge Morais Valle)

02. The Kindness Protocol (Vinod Tiwari)

03. Green Summer (CHEN-YUN MAO, ZI-LING LU)

04. A Gift Undelivered (YU-XUAN CHEN)

BEST SCREENPLAY –

01. The crossing (Publio César de la Vega García)

02. Playback (GUAN-TING CHEN, YUAN-CHUN HSIEH, YU-JEN CHEN, YI-FANG TSAI, MIN-SYUAN SYU, WEN-Y CHEN)

03. Fighting! (YI-HSUEH WU, HSIN-YU WANG)

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BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM –

01.The Last Day (L’ultimo giorno) (Michael Fantauzzi)

02. Charity day (Ginita Sunaina)

BEST DIRECTION –

01. Sight (Jamie Kassler)

02. Walkers (william m mesa)

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BEST MUSIC VIDEO –

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

02. Imitating Stanley Kubrick 2 (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)

03. What The Troll (Shweta Harve)

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BEST WEB SERIES –

01. Understanding Language Support at Your GP Surgery: A Conversation with Healthwatch (Sharon Woodward, Fatou Badjie Ceesay, Nikki Latham)

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BEST SCREENPLAY (Feature Screenplay Category)

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

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BEST SMARTPHONE SHORT –

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

02. Jane and the Rose (Evyh Cerhus)

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Best Film Poster –

01. The Last Day (L’ultimo giorno) (Michael Fantauzzi)

02. We Meet Again (Marcus Armand Siler, Nazarene Rhodes)

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BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD-

Best Feature Film-

01. Dear Theodosia (Director: Karen Klami)

02. Malavazhi (Director: Boban G | Actor, Producer: Devadasan Cherevath )

Best Direction –

01. Olive (Director, Writer: Tatiana Smirnova)

02. Together Forever (Director : Yusuf Al-Saadi)

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Special Jury Award – BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR :

01. My Beloved Mukku (Anshul Sharma)

02.Dharau (Manish Shinde)

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Special Jury Award – BEST WRITER :

01. Land of the Mustaches (Director: Leon Joosen | Writer: Rutanya Alda)

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Special Jury Award – BEST ACTOR / ACTRESS (Acting) :

01. LINCOLN (Director, Writer, Actor: Jeevan Mani)

02. Land of the Mustaches (Actress: Rutanya Alda)

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Special Jury Award – BEST DIRECTOR :

01.Ektu Ektu Bhalo Thakar Golpo (The Tale of Accepting – Little by Little) (Bhaswan Chatterjee, Somrik Kar)

02. Yard Saleing (Tom Logan)

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Special Jury Award – BEST SHORT FILM :

01.Chashma (Spectacles) (Director: Ritesh Bhaskaran)

02.RED (Director: Borja Ros Espejo )

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Special Jury Award – BEST FEATURE FILM :

01. Heller Tag (Bright Day) (André Nitzschke)

02. Joothan (Pushpendra Albe)

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Special Jury Award – BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM :

01. Seekers (Gio Israel)

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

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Special Jury Award – BEST SCRIPT :

01. Golden Years My Ass! (Rain Story)

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Special Jury Award – BEST MUSIC :

01. Honeymoonay Namah (Direction: Nishant Bhardwaj | Music: Akshay Bafila)

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Special Jury Award – BEST EDITOR –

01. A Better Place (Wesley Rickert)

02. Walkers (william m mesa | Lincoln Kupchak)

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BEST FOREIGN Language FILM Award :

01. aprÈs l’incendie (AFTER THE FIRE) (Hristo Todorov)

02. la triste realidad (THE SAD TRUTH) (Adrián Sebastián Pérez Ortiz)

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Best Feature Film of the Fest Award :

01. A Better Place (Wesley Rickert)

02. Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)

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Best Documentary of the Fest Award:

01. Via Dolorosa: The Path of Sorrows (طريق الآلام) (Amira Khalil Hanania)

02. The Last Message (Andrii Voloshyn, Oleksander Liebiediev)

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Best Film of the Fest Award –

01. Seon Actually (SoYoung Lee)

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King Shivaji Maharaj Global Leadership Prize –

01.DITTO (Suresh G)

02. Samadhi Part 4 “Sadhana” (Daniel Schmidt)

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