IFFI Best Film Award explained

IFFI Best Film Award
Subheader:	Golden Peacock
Awarded For:	"Outstanding film of a high aesthetic and technical standard and educational and culture value"^[1]
Sponsor:	International Film Festival of India
Firstawarded:	^[2]
Lastawarded:	2024
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Toxic
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	37
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Gamperaliya

The IFFI Best Film Award (officially known as the Golden Peacock for the Best Feature Film) is the main prize of the International Film Festival of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India.^{[3] [4]} It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with the Golden Peacock a representation of the Peacock, India’s national bird, with a permanent motto of the festival Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The whole world is a family).^[5] The award is announced for films produced in a year across the world. The award was instituted in 1965 from the 3rd IFFI competitive edition.^{[6] [7]}

List of recipients

The award carries a cash prize of shared equally between the director and producer. The director will receive the Golden Peacock and a certificate in addition to the cash prize. The producer will receive a certificate in addition to the cash.^[8]

Year	Film	Original Title	Director	Country
1965	Gamperaliya			Sri Lanka
1969	The Damned		Luchino Visconti	Italy
	Dreaming Youth			Hungary
	Brother and Sister	Ani Imōto		Japan
	Hungarian Rhapsody			Hungary
	The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes			Bulgaria
	Aakrosh		Govind Nihalani	India
	Not Awarded	Not Awarded	Not Awarded	Not Awarded
	The Bostonians			United Kingdom
	Ruthless Romance		Eldar Ryazanov
1987	Farewell Green Summer	Proshal Zelen Leta	Elyer Ishmukhamedov
	Blush			China
	The King of Masks			China
	Karunam	Karunam	Jayaraj	India
	Railroad Man	Poppoya	Yasuo Furuhata	Japan
	Letters to Elza
	At Five in the Afternoon	Panj é asr		/ France
	The Beautiful City	Shah-re ziba
	Iron Island	Jazireh ahani
	The Old Barber			China
	The Wall		Lin Chih Ju
	Tulpan			Kazakhstan /
2009	Cannot Live Without You
	Moner Manush		Gautam Ghose	India
	Porfirio		Alejandro Landes	Colombia / Argentina
	Anhe Ghore Da Daan		Gurvinder Singh	India
	Beatriz's War	A Guerra da Beatriz	Luigi Acquisto / Bety Reis	Timor-Leste
	Leviathan	Leviafan
	Embrace of the Serpent	El abrazo de la serpiente		Colombia
	Daughter
	BPM (Beats per Minute)			France
	Donbass			Ukraine
	Particles	Les particules	Blaise Harrison	France / Switzerland
	Into the Darkness	De forbandede år		Denmark
	Ring Wandering	リング・ワンダリング		Japan
	I Have Electric Dreams	Tengo sueños eléctricos	Valentina Maurel	Spain
	Endless Borders		Abbas Amini
	Toxic	Akiplėša	Saulė Bliuvaitė	Lithuania

Discontinued awards

Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film)

Edition	Film	Director	Country
3rd			India
4th	Man and the Crow (Short Film)		Sri Lanka
29th	Paper Airplanes	Farhad Mehhranfar
45th			India

Edition	Film	Country
3rd	Cyclone	Cuba
4th	Taking off at 1800 Hours	Cuba
	Automatic
	After the Silence	India
	An Encounter with Faces Olympic Games	India Poland
	A Period of Transition	Denmark
	Not Awarded	Not Awarded
	Narcissus	Canada
	Not Awarded	Not Awarded

External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India

Notes and References

1. Web site: Directorate of Film Festival . 2018-01-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171231211420/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm12IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=12IIFA.pdf# . 2017-12-31 . dead .
2. Web site: International Film Festival in India. rrtd.nic.in. 31 March 2020. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20041121093039/http://rrtd.nic.in/iffi-2002.htm. 21 November 2004.
3. Web site: One of Asia's First Film Festivals – IFFI over the years.. 3 October 2017. 9 January 2018. 8 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180108175457/http://iffigoa.org/asias-first-film-festivals-iffi-over-years/. dead.
4. Web site: Key highlights of the 46th International Film Festival of India. PIB. 30 November 2015.
5. Book: Saverio Giovacchini. Robert Sklar. Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style. 31 October 2012. 1 December 2011. Univ. Press of Mississippi. 978-1-61703-122-9. 179–.
6. Book: Saverio Giovacchini. Robert Sklar. Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style. 31 October 2012. 1 December 2011. Univ. Press of Mississippi. 978-1-61703-122-9. 179–.
7. Web site: Directorate of Film Festival. iffi.nic.in. 2018-01-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20160822074133/http://iffi.nic.in/Dff2011/Frm3IIFAAward.aspx?PdfName=3IIFA.pdf. 2016-08-22. dead.
8. News: Lithuanian Drama ‘Toxic’ Wins Top Prize at 55th International Film Festival of India . Naman Ramachandran, Patrick Frater . . 28 November 2024 . 29 November 2024 . en.