SHORT FILM AWARDS 2020
  • Best Actor Male
  • Best Actor Female
  • Best Movie Fiction
  • Best Movie Nonfiction
  • Peoples Chioce

Winners for the Filmfare Short Film Awards 2020

Best Actor Male - Rajesh Sharma
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Directed By: Seemaa Desai

Bored of being bored as being bored is boring.
Kranti, our protagonist in his late 40s, is leading a monotonous boring married life & works as a clerk at a government ID office.
One day his colleague, Mishra, introduces him to a dating app, TINDEY. He gets fascinated by the idea of meeting singles, ready to mingle, he gives it a shot.
Kranti's life gets spiced up after he meets Molly, a free spirited, gorgeous girl on the app. But she seems to have a hidden agenda. The whole process of dating turns hilarious.
TINDEY is funny, yet emotional portrayal of three worlds running parallel in todays' time, the oblivious, the transitions and the obvious.

ARTISTS
Rajesh Sharma
Ashwini Kalsekar
Adah Sharma
Mukesh Bhatt

Best Actor Female - Sarah Hashmi
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Directed By: Shazia Iqbal

Based on a true story, Bebaak explores patriarchal notion of male agency over female bodies, constructed on a systematic theological idea that requires women to cover up, to be ‘more modest, respectful and acceptable’ by Society. It chronicles Fatin’s story, an economically vulnerable young woman who faces misogyny and gets chastised by a religious authority during a scholarship interview.

Key Cast 
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
- Sarah Hashmi.
- Vipin Sharma.
- Sheeba Chadda.
- Sana Pathan (Debutant)

Best Short Film in Fiction - Bebaak
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Directed By: Shazia Iqbal

Based on a true story, Bebaak explores patriarchal notion of male agency over female bodies, constructed on a systematic theological idea that requires women to cover up, to be ‘more modest, respectful and acceptable’ by Society. It chronicles Fatin’s story, an economically vulnerable young woman who faces misogyny and gets chastised by a religious authority during a scholarship interview.

Key Cast 
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
- Sarah Hashmi.
- Vipin Sharma.
- Sheeba Chadda.
- Sana Pathan (Debutant)

Best Short Film in Non Fiction - Village Of A Lesser God
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Directed By: Ananth Narayan Mahadevan

TALASARI, a village just 63 miles from maximum city Mumbai seeped in troubles like lack of medical facilities, illiteracy, joblessness, addictions, land grabbing, religious conversion, blind faith etc. Circa March 2012, a Homoeopathic doctor, Jatin Nandlal Valia took it on himself to rehabilitate the village and thus began a process of reformation. From free medical care to education to hygiene & sanitation to an ambitious earn-and-learn programme. The documentary echoes the over 6 year journey of Talasari through the dedicated efforts of one man whose aim is to make Talasari the role model for all villages in India to adopt.
CREDITS
Script, Direction, Editing -ANANTH NARAYAN MAHADEVAN
Producer -JAYSHREE N. VALIA

People's Choice Award for Best Film - Deshi
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Directed By: Rohit Bapu Kamble

Deshi is a small girl who wants to go to school. When she and her mother go to school for her admission, Headmaster ask Deshi’s mother about her caste and religion. Deshi’s mother has no answer because she is prostitute. She wants to live like human being without any caste and religion.
Deshi: Gargee Naik
Mother: Veena Jamkar
HeadMaster: Sudhir Joshi