Indian Film Festival Of Melbourne 2021

Best Performance Male

Benjamin Daimary

Jonaki Porua - Assamese

Harish Khanna

God on the Balcony - Assamese

Jitin Puthanchery

Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam - Malayalam

Koumarane Valavane

Nasir - Tamil

Neel Deshmukh

Sthalpuran - Marathi

Pankaj Tripathi

Ludo - Hindi

Rajkummar Rao

Ludo - Hindi

Suriya

Soorarai Pottru - Tamil

Best Performance Female

Kani Kusruti

Biriyaani - Malayalam

Nimisha Sajayan

The Great Indian Kitchen - Malayalam

Rasika Dugal

Lootcase - Hindi

Rima Kallingal

Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam - Malayalam

Swastika Mukherjee

Tasher Ghawr - Bengali

Vidya Balan

Sherni - Hindi

Vinamrata Rai

Fire in the Mountains - Hindi

Best Director

Ajitpal Singh

Fire in the Mountains - Hindi

Akshay Indikar

Sthalpuran - Marathi

Amit V. Masurkar

Sherni - Hindi

Anurag Basu

Ludo - Hindi

Arun Karthick

Nasir - Tamil

Biswajeet Bora

God on the Balcony - Assamese

Jeo Baby

The Great Indian Kitchen - Malayalam

Prithvi Konanur

Pinki Elli? - Kannada

Sanal Kumar Sasidharan

Kayattam (A'hr) - Malayalam

Sudha Kongara

Soorarai Pottru - Tamil

IFFM 2021 Films

The Indian Film Festival showcases and celebrates the best of Indian cinema. Here are our nominations among films released between August 2020 to July 2021.

Best Indie Film

The winner of the Best Indie Film wins a URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 from Black Magic Design

Fire in the Mountains

Hindi

God on the Balcony

Assamese

Nasir

Tamil

Laila Aur Satt Geet

Gojri, Hindi

Pinki Elli?

Kannada

Seththumaan

Tamil

Sthalpuran

Marathi

The Great Indian Kitchen

Malayalam

Best Film

The winner of the Best Film wins a URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 from Black Magic Design and a nomination in the Best Asian Film Category in the prestigious AACTA awards

Kayattam (A'hr)

Malayalam

Lootcase

Hindi

Ludo

Hindi

Sherni

Hindi

Soorarai Pottru

Tamil

Tasher Ghawr

Bengali

Best Documentary

For the first time, we are delighted to introduce IFFM Best Documentary Award.
The winner of the Best Documentary wins a URSA Mini Pro 4.6K G2 from Black Magic Design

About Mumma

English

A Rifle and a Bag

Gondi, Madiya, Hindi

Borderlands

Bengali, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Other

Shut Up Sona

English

Watch Over Me

Hindi, Malayalam

Womb

English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu

Jury

Guneet Monga

Guneet Monga is an Indian film producer, executive producer of an Academy Award-winning short, a 2015 BAFTA nominee (for “The Lunchbox”), and the founder of Sikhya Entertainment a boutique film production house that produced notable films like Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1, Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2, Peddlers and The Lunchbox, Masaan, and Zubaan. Monga served as an Executive Producer on Period. End of Sentence. which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Monga was voted as one of the top 12 women achievers in the Global Entertainment industry by The Hollywood Reporter and among the top 50 Indians changing India by India Today.

The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is delighted to launch its very first Awards celebrating the best in Indian series on the streaming platforms. The nominations are selected from the shows premiering between August 2020 to July 2021, and on platforms available to view in Australia.

Jury

ADRIENNE Mc KIBBINS

Throughout her career in screen culture, Adrienne has been a film historian, film researcher, film critic, film programmer, and a film administrator. She has participated on film juries at international film festivals, in Hong Kong, Australia, Taiwan and India.

Adrienne has also served as advisor on the submissions panel for Indian cinema for APSA. She has also lectured on, and presented Indian films at events across Australia.

Although she has worked in film research on all types on cinema, her primary passion has been Asian cinema, particularly Indian (predominantly Hindi) Cinema, and has published on this topic.

Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran is a film trade journalist who is an international reporter for Variety, a critic specialising in South Asian cinema for Sight & Sound, and a fortnightly columnist on world cinema for The Hindu. Naman’s work as an author includes Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography (Penguin), Lights, Camera, Masala: Making Movies In Mumbai (IBH) and chapters in Rough Guide To Film (Rough Guides), Movies: From The Silent Classics Of The Silver Screen To The Digital and 3D Era (Universe) and Movie Star Chronicles: A Visual History of 320 of the World's Greatest Movie Stars (Peregrine). Naman is a program advisor for the London Indian Film Festival, is on the advisory board of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and is a trustee of the Satyajit Ray Foundation. He has previously worked with the British Film Institute, HBO Asia and MTV India. He is a BAFTA member.

Shubhra Gupta

Shubhra Gupta is a senior columnist and film critic at The Indian Express. She has written a widely-read weekly review column for over 20 years, and is one of India’s most well-known and respected film critics. She is a frequent traveller to film festivals around the world ( Berlin, Cannes,Toronto, Doha,Macao, Bangkok, Tehran), and has served on national and international juries. She curates and conducts the hugely popular platform, The Indian Express Film Club, in Delhi and Mumbai. The screening is followed by animated discussion, which she moderates.

One of the most rewarding aspects of her work is the creation and running of modules on 'Understanding Cinema' for students at media and technology institutes. She served as a member of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) between 2012-2015. Shubhra received the prestigious Ramnath Goenka award for the best writing on film in 2012. Her first book, ‘50 Films That Changed Bollywood 1995-2015’, published by HarperCollins, is a unique account of the growth of the largest film industry in the world, in post-liberalised India.

Best Performance (Male) in Web Series