National Film Award for Best Short Film (Up to 30 Min) explained

National Film Award for Best Short Film (upto 30 mins)
Subheader:	National award for contributions to non-feature films
Sponsor:	National Film Development Corporation of India
Firstawarded:	1987
Lastawarded:	2022
Former Name:	National Film Award for Best Short Fiction Film (1987–2021)
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Xunyota
Award1 Type:	Total awarded
Award1 Winner:	32
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award2 Winner:	The Eight Column Affair

The National Film Award for Best Short Film (upto 30 mins) is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1987, at 35th National Film Awards and awarded annually for the short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Since the 70th National Film Awards, the name was changed to "Best Short Film (upto 30 mins)".^[1]

Awards

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Cash prize amount varied over the period. Following table illustrates the cash prize amount over the years:

Year (Period)	Cash Prize
1987–2005	Producer and Director: Rajat Kamal and Each
2006–2021	Producer and Director: Rajat Kamal and Each
2022–present	Producer and Director: Rajat Kamal and Each

Winners

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
1987	The Eight Column Affair	English	FTII	Sriram Raghavan		^[2]
1988	The Story of Tiblu	Idu Mishmi	Santosh Sivan for Films Division	Santosh Sivan		^[3]
1989	Behula	Bengali	Raja Mitra	Raja Mitra		^[4]
1990	Aamukh	Hindi	FTII	Rajkumar		^[5]
1991	Punaravritti	Hindi	FTII	Imo Singh		^[6]
	Totanama	Hindi	Vikas Satwalekar	Chandita Mukherjee
1992	Agar Aap Chahein	Hindi	Shahnaz Rahim for Films Division	Mazahir Rahim		^[7]
1993	Sunday	Hindi	National Center of Films for Children and Young People	Pankaj Advani		^[8]
1994	Still Life	Hindi English	FTII	Subhadro Chowdhary		^[9]
1995	The Rebel	Hindi	John Shankarmangalam	Rajashree		^[10]
1996	Vidiyalai Nokki	Tamil	F and T V. T. I. N. Chennai	P. Venkatesh		^[11]
	Athmeeyam	Malayalam	FTII	Nandakumar Kavil
1997	Hypnothesis	Hindi	FTII	Rajat Kapoor		^[12]
1998	Jee Karta Tha	Hindi	Mohan Agashe for Films Division	Hansa Thapliyal		^[13]
1999	Blind Folded	Tamil	A. Sriram	S. Sri Ram		^[14]
2000	Bhor	Bengali	Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute	Ritubarna Chudgar		^[15]
2001	Chaitra	Marathi	FTII	Kranti Kanade		^[16]
2002	Sunder Jibon	Bengali	Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute	Sandeep Chattopadhyay		^[17]
2003	Sati Radhika	Assamese	Anjali Das	Anjali Das		^[18]
2004	Cradle Song	English Hindi	Tripurari Sharan for FTII	Nimisha Pandey		^[19]
2005	Thackkayin Meedha Naangu Kangal	Tamil	Doordarshan Ray Cinema	Vasanth		^[20]
2006	Ek Aadesh: Command For Choti	Hindi	Children's Film Society	Ramesh Asher		^[21]
2007	Udedh Bun	Bhojpuri	FTII	Siddharth Sinha		^[22]
2008	Stations	Hindi Marathi English	FTII	Emmanuel Palo		^[23]
2009	Boond	Hindi	Kumar Mangat	Abhishek Pathak		^[24]
2010	Kal 15 August Dukan Band Rahegi	Hindi	FTII	Prateek Vats		^[25]
2011	Panchakki	Hindi	Sanjeev Rattan	Sanjeev Rattan		^[26]
2012	Kaatal	Marathi	FTII	Vikrant Pawar		^[27]
2013	Mandrake	Mandrake !	Hindi	FTII	Ruchir Arun		^[28]
2014	Mitraa	Marathi	Athaansh Communications	Ravindra Jadhav		^[29]
2015	Aushadh	Marathi	Amol Deshmukh	Amol Deshmukh		^[30]
2016	Aaba	English	Raj Kumar Gupta	Amar Kaushik		^[31]
2017	Mayat	Marathi	Suyash Shinde	Suyash Shinde
2018	Kharvas	Marathi	Aditya Suhas Jambhale	Aditya Suhas Jambhale
2019	Custody	Hindi	Ambiecka Pandit	Ambiecka Pandit

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Under Secretary to the Government of India . 14 December 2023 . Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Government of India . 25 August 2024 . Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
2. Web site: 35th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
3. Web site: 36th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
4. Web site: 37th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
5. Web site: 38th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
6. Web site: 39th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
7. Web site: 40th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
8. Web site: 41st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
9. Web site: 42nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
10. Web site: 43rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
11. Web site: 44th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
12. Web site: 45th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
13. Web site: 46th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
14. Web site: 47th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
15. Web site: 48th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
16. Web site: 49th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
17. Web site: 50th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
18. Web site: 51st National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
19. Web site: 52nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
20. Web site: 53rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
21. Web site: 54th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
22. Web site: 55th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
23. Web site: 56th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
24. Web site: 57th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
25. Web site: 58th National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 29 March 2022.
26. Web site: 59th National Film Awards for the Year 2011 Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 7 March 2012.
27. 60th National Film Awards Announced. Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. 17 April 2014.
28. 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.
29. 62nd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 24 March 2015. 24 March 2015.
30. 63rd National Film Awards. Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. 29 March 2016.
31. 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.