Step into the Limelight at BOLLYWOOD Int’l Film Awards – BIFA – TOP Rated & Reviewed

Winners – Bollywood International Film Awards- April 2026 Edition:

Short Film:- Best Short Film Award –

1) Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)

2) Utsuwa (Akiyoshi Shibata)

3) Aging Dreams (SRINIVASA BOBBILI)

4) Tumhare Khat- Your Letters (Gautam Chaturvedi)

– Best Director Award –

1) A KNIFE IN THE MOONLIGHT (Manoj Koloth)

2) Paranormal Party Thriller (Danny MAlin)

3) SORRY MAA (PARAG CHHAPEKAR)

4) The Bottle (Ashutosh Trivedi)

– Best Writer Award –

1) An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn)

2) Final Whisper (Director: Sahir Shaikh | Writer, Producer: Iftikhar Ahmad Khurram)

3) Side Steps (Director: Jerry Johnson Vithayathil)

4) Anjali (Director, Writer: Francis Mead, Prabhat Gurung)

– Best Editor Award –

1) Sapperlot  (Werner Biedermann | Ferdinand Fries)

2) Children at the rooftop cinema (Director: 侑紀 刷場)

3) Believe In Love (Stacey Simon)

– Best Cinematographer / DOP Award –

1) The absolute (Monica Ravalico)

2) The Ride (Director: Ashwin Alok | Producer: Kreative Krew)

3) A MOTHER’S LOVE (Mutterliebe) (Director: Harald Schwarzenbacher | DOP: Willy Dettmeyer)
– Best Actor / Actress Award –

1) Salary (in the veins of this tree) (Director: Kamran Hamzehloo | Actor: Mir hamed Koochaki)

2) Between Sand and Skyline (Sherin Paul  | Actress: Jamila Alblooshi)

3) Justice (Director: Brian Deatt | Actor: Timo Wolfram)

4) AM (Alexia Vasiliou)

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-Feature Film: 

– Best Feature Film Award :

1) KAARA… A CUSTOM (SUNIL BADONI)

2) Dark Secret (Director: Munkhtumur Dondow | Producer: Chinguun Balkhjav | Writer: Selenge Chadraabal)

3) A matador in paris (Troy Henriksen )
– Best Director Award :

1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)

2) Devil’s Game (Tereza Hirsch)

– Best Writer Award :

1) Love, & Duct Tape (Danny MAlin)

2) Misty Morning (Anselmo Garcia)

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-Documentary :
– Best Documentary Film Award  –

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

2) Who Dat” The JT Money Story (Dante S Briggins)

3) RMV The Kingmaker (Binu Subramaniyam | Sathya Movies)

4) My Gray World (Petro Aleksowski)
– Best Director Award –

1) Michigan Visits Matter: The Family Cost of Incarceration (Bryce Mackie)

2) Colors of Silence (Narine Gevorgyan)

3) The Deep Dive (Blair Murphy)

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– Animated Short Film:
– Best Animated Short Film Award –

1) In Half (Jorge Morais Valle)

2) El cruce (Publio César de la Vega García)

3) World Naked Bike Tour (William Bradford)
– Best Director Award –

1) Time Settles (Julia Gromskaya)

2) तहानलेली हाक/Tahanlelee Haak (Apurv Gautam)

3) THE BLACK SMOKE OF PREDICTION… (Director: damir dado šuša | Production: Zagreb Film)

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Experimental Short Film:
– Best Experimental Short Film Award –

1) Dystutopic (Mimi Garrard)

2) The Flickering Experiment (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)

3) Dancing In My Sorrows (Parris Lane)

– Best Director Award :

1) RYSE of the 1NES (Jason Caston)

2) LIFE ,DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES (Simone Izzo Izzo)

3) Refugee (Mülteci) (Özlem Mengükan)

4) Final Encounter (Tanmoy Dutta Gupta)

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Smartphone Short Film:-

Best Smartphone Short Film Award –

1) OVERTHINKING (Gianmaria Fiorillo)

2) This Is it! (Ratnakar Kulkarni)

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Music Video:-

Best Music Video Award –

1) Chaton – From the Future (Marcus CB Soori)

2) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)
– Best Director Award –

1) VANDE MATARAM – Lieutenant Norman Bhairava (Goutham Kool Monkk)

2) Thank God For The Dreamers (Director, Producer: Jay Carney)

Best Lyrics Award –

1) Ram Aaye by DJ VaibhaV Thakar (Vaibhav Thakar)

2) The Perfumed Garden – Ananda Xenia Shakti/Love Power The Band (Ananda Xenia Shakti)

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– Web Series:
– Best Web Series Award –

1) Drive On: Lessons in Resilience from a Combat Physician (Director: Scott DeLuzio, Writer: Josh McConkey)

2) Untold Life (Purushottam Dandekar)

—Screenplay Category:
– Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Feature) –

1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)

2) Love Experiments (Andry Platrites)

3) End of the Century (Anselmo Garcia)

4) The Trouble with Weekends (Daniel Lester Phillips)

5) X9 (Sam Speron) 

– Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Short) –

1) PANTHEON (Writers: Tayfun Uçar, Deniz Uçar, Güneş Çavuş)

2) Fortunata (Max Oliva)

3) Short Boxes (rob taylor)

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-Film Poster:
– Best Film Poster Award –

1) KALI (Desirée Malinowski)

2) Alive not Dead (Bansilal Pagaria)

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– Best Photography Award –

1) Dream of Happiness (Pawan Tiwari)

2) Sachchai (Kaveri Nirmal)

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Trailer:- Best Trailer Award –

1) Stable Life (Trisha Nair)

2) Journey to the Core (Dinesh Joshi)

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Best Multimedia Film –

1) The Cure (Trix StarT)

2) Ultimate Vision (Reema Lihine)

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-Special Awards –

Best Director Award – 

1) Staten Island Ghost Story (Director, Writer, Producer: Vincent J Mazella)

2) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (Director: JULEE JASMIN \ Writer: DIWAKAR PRAVEEN \ Producer: Salim Akhtar)

3) An Ever After Drama (Director, Writer, Producer: Michelle Lynn)

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-Special Jury Awards -Best Short Film –

1) Prowl (Rohit Menon)

Best Feature Film –

1) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (JULEE JASMIN)Best Documentary Film –

1) I am only a duck (Solo soy un pato) (Director: Fran Ruiz | Writer: Julia Elizalde)

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–Best Feature Film of the Year Award –

1) Gaav Bolavato [The Village Calls] (Director: Vinod Manikrao | Producer: Prashant Madhukar Narode, Ganesh Ingole)

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Best Documentary of the year Award –

1) Ants’ eyes (BAI XIN)

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– Best Director of the Year Award –

1) KAARA… A CUSTOM (SUNIL BADONI)

2) Mera School (Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule)

3) When we die again (Mudassar Mazhar khan)

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– Best Debut Director of the year Award –

1) Dharau (Manish Shinde)

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– Best Actor of the Year Award –

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

2) Be Kind ! (Antoine Béguin | Actors: Rufus, Maryvonne SCHILTZ)

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– Best Screenwriter of the Year Award –

1) Behind the Algorithm (Michelle Lynn Taubman)

2) KALI (Desirée Malinowski)

3) Forty Nine Degrees of Separation (John Croll Walsh)

4) Last Summer in New York (Sabrina Zhang)

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– Best Screenplay of the Year Award –

1) DITTO (Suresh G)

2) Secrets of Montmartre 2 (Michelle Lynn)

3) WHEN WE WERE GUYS (simone izzo)

4) Golden Years My Ass! (Rain Story)

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– Best Story of the year Award –

1) KALI (Desirée Malinowski)

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– Best Picture of the Year Award –

1) Dark Secret (Director: Munkhtumur Dondow | Producer: Chinguun Balkhjav | Writer: Selenge Chadraabal)

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-Best DOP / Cinematographer of the year Award :

1) Time is Money (Bharat Patel)

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-Best Short Film of the year Award :

1) An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn)

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– Best Foreign Film of the year Award –

1) Let’s go! Love Ishinomaki “United smiles across the world” (TOMOHISA ISHIGAMI)

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

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– Best Film Production of the Year Award :

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

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– Bollywood Jury Award :

1) Mystery on the Vegan Express (David Giardina)

2) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (Director: JULEE JASMIN \ Writer: DIWAKAR PRAVEEN \ Producer: Salim Akhtar)

3) Modern Frankenstein (Gabriel Jeanne)

4) KADIN (Veyis Sarıkaya)

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Best Filmmaker of the Year Award –

1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)

2) Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)

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– Best Singer of the year Award :

1) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)

2) Melodies of Maval (Satish Jadhav)

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Best Music Of the Year Award :

1) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)

2) Dancing In My Sorrows (Director, Music : Parris Lane)

3) In Paris (Michelle Lynn)

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– Best Sound of the Year Award :

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

2) Untold Secrets of Life (Ramesh Tandale)

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– BEST YOUTUBER AWARD –

1) Drive On: Lessons in Resilience from a Combat Physician (Director: Scott DeLuzio, Writer: Josh McConkey)

– BEST AI FILM DIRECTOR AWARD –

1) 2080 New Family (Director, Writer: Jaeyong Choi)