National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film explained

National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film
Subheader:	National award for contributions to Short films
Sponsor:	Directorate of Film Festivals
Firstawarded:	1984
Lastawarded:	2017
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	31
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	Bada Media

The National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

Indicates a joint award for that year

List of films, showing the year language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Citation
1984	Bada Media	Hindi		Manohar S. Varpe		^[1]
1985	The Whispering Wind	English		Biplab Roy Choudhury		^[2]
1986	The Land Where Wind Blows Free	English	Director of Cultural Affairs, Assam	Chandra Narayan Barua		^[3]
1987	Raaste Band Hain Sab	Hindi	Manjiri Dingwaney, Rural Labour Cell	Manjiri Dutta		^[4]
1988	Maa Ooru	Telugu	B. Ramachandra Rao	B. Narsing Rao		^[5]
1989	Baiga	Hindi	Madhya Pradesh Madhyam	Rajendra Janglay		^[6]
1990	Lolaab	English	Hillman Film Pvt. Ltd	Mohi-Ud-Din Mirza		^[7]
1991	The Valiant Ones	English	A. K. Balakrishnan	A. K. Balakrishnan		^[8]
1992	Wangala: A Garo Festival	English	Bappa Ray	Bappa Ray		^[9]
1993	Ladakh: Life Along the Indus	English	Bappa Ray	Bappa Ray		^[10]
1994	The Trapped	English	K. Jayachandran	O. K. Johnny		^[11]
1995	Yelhou Jagoi	Meitei	Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts	Aribam Syam Sharma		^[12]
1996	No Award					^[13]
1997	In the Land of Lepchas	English	Government of West Bengal	Anjan Bose Manas Kamal Chowdhari		^[14]
1998	Kherwal Parab	Santali	Sankar Rakshit	Sankar Rakshit		^[15]
1999	Koihatir Dhulia	Assamese	Satyabrat Kalita	Hemanta Das		^[16]
	Surabhi	Telugu	K. Jaydev	K. N. T. Sastry
2000	Scribbles on Akka	Kannada	Flavia Agnes	Madhusree Dutta		^[17]
2001	The Monpas of Arunachal Pradesh	English	Films Division	Aribam Syam Sharma		^[18]
2002	The Morung: Silent Witness of the Brave Wancho	English	Anthropological Survey of India	Bappa Ray		^[19]
2003	Aur Ghumantu Thhahar Gaye	Hindi	Leo Arts Communication	Meenakshi Vinay Rai		^[20]
2004	The Legend of Fat Mama	English	Rafeeq Ellias	Rafeeq Ellias		^[21]
2005	Spirit of the Graceful Lineage	English	Bibi Devi Barbarooah	PreranaBarbarooah		^[22]
2006	No Award					^[23]
2007	Tai Phakey	English	Priyam Chaliha	Mridul Gupta		^[24]
2008	Boliya Pitaier Sohoki Sootal	Assamese	Altaf Mazid Zabeen Ahmed Susanta Roy	Altaf Mazid		^[25]
2009	No Award					^[26]
2010	Songs of Mashangva	Tangkhul Meitei English	Oinam Doren	Oinam Doren		^[27]
2011	Bom	Hindi English	Anirban Datta	Amlan Datta		^[28]
2012	Char... The No-Man's Island	Bengali	Sourav Sarangi	Sourav Sarangi		^[29]
2013	No Award					^[30]
2014	Qissa–e–Parsi : The Parsi Story	English	Public Service Broadcasting Trust	Divya Cowasji Shilpi Gulati		^[31]
2015	Aoleang	English	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies	Ranajit Ray		^[32]
2016	No Award					^[33]
2017	Name, Place, Animal, Thing		Nithin R.	Nithin R.
	Slave Genesis		Aneez K. M.	Aneez K. M.

External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives

Notes and References

1. Web site: 32nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
2. Web site: 33rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
3. Web site: 34th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
4. Web site: 35th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
5. Web site: 36th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
6. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
7. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
8. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
9. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
10. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
11. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
12. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
13. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
14. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
15. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
16. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
17. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
18. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
19. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
20. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
21. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
22. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
23. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
24. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
25. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
26. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
27. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2022.
28. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
29. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 18 March 2013.
30. Web site: 61st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. 16 April 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416181218/http://www.dff.nic.in/List%20of%20Awards.pdf. 16 April 2014.
31. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
32. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 28 March 2016.
33. 64th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 7 April 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf. 6 June 2017.