BUDDHA International Film Festival – Award WINNERS 2024

SHORT FILM :

BEST SHORT FILM Award –
01. Azadi (Writer, Director: Anshul Vijayvargiya, Producer: Siddharth Kasyap)
02. Deja Vu (Jean Frenette)
03. Bubbles (Ashish Jaiswal)

BEST DIRECTION Award –
01. HER LAST SHARE (ABHIJIT DASGUPTA)
02. Cup Of Tea (Rohan Todkar)
03. PYRAMID (Shravan Diliprao Dandawate)

BEST ACTING Award – (Male)
01. Golden Age (Director: Seyfican Bilgiç | Actor: Önder Taşyürek )
02. Letterheads (Director: Aaryaman Nagpal | Actor: Savar Adlakha)
03. Repudiation (Director: Nader Mohandesi | Actor: Thomas Siby)
04. The Unseen (Gauri Saikia | Actors: Bhumanyu Pran Tamuli, Gauri Saikia)

BEST ACTING Award – (Female)
01. With Love, Mum (Director: Shreya Kundu, Actor: Shivangi Chaturvedi)
02. DOCTOR HARRIET’S FOUR (Director: Lukas Metjes | Actor: Hervine De Boodt | Producer: Marion H von Loewenstern)
03. 吃喝男人女人饮食男女 Eat Drink Man Woman (吉诺家诺 张张 (Jí nuò jiā nuò zhāng zhāng) | Acting: 李 他 (Lǐ tā))
04. Eh! (Niraj Shukla | Actors: Ayushi Bhadra, Raushan Sourabh Sharma)

BEST SCREENPLAY Award –
01. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY (CHAND PATHAK)
02. Yajnam (Ranjana K, Vijayesh Kambrat | Story: K B Sreedevi)
03. YAAN (Satish Sharma)
04. Damru (Riya Agarwal)

BEST WRITER AWARD :
01. To Set in Stone (Vihaan Pant)
02. CLIMAX (Yash Deepak Gadre )
03. You Complete Me (Aalap Dhaval Desai)
04. God Gift (Shrikant Sham Gargade)

BEST EDITING Award –
01. NICOTINE (Luca Vines)
02. Wake (Karl Livingstone)
03. Jinn (Hamid Baig)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Award –
01. Dukkha (Kenneth Lisungan )
02. Broken (Mithun M Vishnu)
03. Coke Squatch (Marcus Watkins )
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DOCUMENTARY :

BEST DOCUMENTARY –
01. Echoes of Ashes (Sanket Verma)
02. American Pot Story: Oaksterdam (Ravit Markus, Dan Katzir)
03. LOOK UP—The Science of Cultural Evolution (Nini Caroline Skarpaas Myhrvold, Espen Jan Folmo)
04. i 2 aye (Richard Philpott)

BEST DIRECTION –
01. Teach a Man to Fish (Grant Leigh Saunders)
02. The Skids ReVolution (Laura Graham)
03. Torn: The IVF Journey (Laura Garcia Broto)
04. An Endless Road (Chen Yongkang)

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT –
01. Peace Wilderness Man (Tim Millard)
02. Freeman (John William Sutherlin )
03. Svalbard – N78E14 on Permafrost (Shihyun Wang)
04. The Last Generation (Prabal Khaund)

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM –
01. BAAHUBALI: CROWN OF BLOOD Season 1 – Episode 6 “Dark Secrets” (Jeevan J. Kang, Navin John)
02. Sri Aurobindo-A New Dawn (Suresh Eriyat)
03. Octopus Brain ( Anthony Rupert)

BEST DIRECTION –
01. Dance, you are alive (Mythravarun Vepakomma)
02. THE 3 GATES OF WISDOM (Devy Man)
03. The Legend of Hanuman Season 4 – Episode 6 (Jeevan J. Kang, Navin John)

BEST SCREENPLAY –
01. MEDITATION (Keiko McAssey)
02. Steel Still Steal (Rojer Chrostophe)
03. Golden Lake ( Rajani Nair)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Award:
01. APPU #ElephantLivesMatter (PROSENJIT GANGULY, AJAY VELU, ARCHISMAN KAR)
02. Greenfield and Lucy (Mark Wilkinson)
03. Cabana waves (Arafat Zahir)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM –
01. अन्तराभव (Between Existence) (Sachin Shrestha)
02. A Wind-blown Glow Story (Hojung j Lee)
03. GAURI (Biswarup Biswas)
04. SEEYACH PATRA (Sanika Sule, Dhawal Pokle)

BEST DIRECTION AWARD :

01. GUAN SHAN (Yao Yuan)
02. NAADIYAH (kabir sahni)
03. Lost in Harmony (Sanjeev Venkataramanan)
04. Fellini…a film of no return (Jennifer Glee Foley)

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BEST MUSIC VIDEO –

01. I don’t love my mother (GERARD CUQ)
02. Natália (Róbert Slimák)
03. HOTTEST SOUNDS (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)
04. Junoon (Madhuri Murli)
05. Zindagi Hai (Jyoti SIngh)

BEST WEB / TV SERIES –

01. Trumpet Player (Felino Dolloso)
02. Rivers in All (Haruto Nakamura)
03. As You Said (Vaishali Mohanty)

BEST SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Category Feature)

01. Chasing Adrienne (JW Richardson)
02. Unalome (Avijit Newar)
03. The Bearded Lady (Steve Troy Sides)
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BEST SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Category Short)

01. Death Can Wait (Sahil Juneja)
02. THE TOWER (Coale Coleman)
03. Waters (Cesar Sanchis Romero)

BEST FILM SYNOPSIS / TREATMENT AWARD :

01. Talk to me ( Hojung vang Lee )
02.Yella Gal: Queen of the Montclair (Linda M White)

BEST SMARTPHONE SHORT –

01. Kezhaman (Anandhapadmanabhan)
02. Rickshaw (Shourya Kumar Lal )
03. Little Box, Big Box (Fuzhou Su)
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BEST TRAILER / TEASER AWARD-

01. #KK (Arjun Pankaj Razdan)
02. Nirvana (Nikolas Keskilammi)
03. The Lamplighter (Director: Hywel Griffith | Writer: Pamela Hanson Ryder)

BEST STORY AWARD-

01. Stripe Chasers (Director: Vishwajeet Dash | Story: Durgesh Singh)
02. EVANESCENCE … (Nicolas BRET-MOREL)
03. KALAM KATHI (BIPLAB DAS)

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BEST PAINTING –

01. Clouds of Love (Yangpai Athokpam)
02. Buddha’s Oasis (Twinkle Dilwaliya)
03. MEET ME AT THE LAKE (Kirby Michael Wright)
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BEST PHOTOGRAPHY :

01. Night on Earth (Anatoly Suzdaltsev)
02. SNAGGING A MERMAN (Kirby Michael Wright)
03. Life at the Stake for Livelihood ( Krishna Urvashi)

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BEST AD FILM AWARD :

01. Best One (Dai Hwan Choi)
02. Social Impact (Aetos Damian)
03. STALLION KAMYAR® – of the STABLE BERLINER BUSINESS WOHNZIMMER (Bastian Lee Jones)

BEST VIRTUAL REALITY / 360° VIDEO :

01. 360° Walking Times Square, NYC (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)
02. The Duguesclin Tower (Ronan LIOT)
03. Shepherds (Haoyun Zhang)
04. The Golden Thread (Alexandra Love, Brian Robert Goodwin)
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BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD-

Best Feature Film-

01. Drums (Sasha Alexeyev)
02. Arjun Chakravarthy ( Journey of an Unsung Champion ) (Vikrant Rudra)
03. Winds of War (Omar Abaza)

Best Direction –

01. Chouzenji (Director: Junichi Kawamoto, Writer: Itaru Era, Producer: 47ENGINE, Japan)
02. None of Her (Poojitha Prasad)
03. Hyderabad Nights (Sagar YVV)

Best Screenplay –

01. Prawasi (Om prakash Dhoundiyal)
02. Aabha (Director: PALLAB ROY | Writer, Producer: PRABIR MAHAPATRA)
03. Thiraiyin Marupakkam (Director: Nitin Samson )

Best Writer Award :

01. Ambu Naadu Ombathu Kuppam (Director: Rajaji G | Writer: Durai Guna)
02. Kripya Dhyaan dein (Neeraj Bhasin, Writer: Vivek Gera)
03. Kachru Mazha Bapa [My father’s name is Garbage.] (Story: Late Kachru Bansode | Director: Mukesh B.S. Jadhav)

Best Acting Award :

01.Chal Zindagi (Director: Vivek Sharma | Actor: Sanjay Mishra )
02. What is love (Director: Shihyun Wang | Actors: Yoyo Lai, James Chen)
03. SASUBAICHA SAKHARPUDA (Dr. Dilip Abnave | Actors: Dr. Dilip Abnave, Ashutosh Gore )

International Jury Prize –

01. Master (Dastan Khalili)
02. The Lost Boys (Bryan Young)
03. Wide Angle (Director: Jayanta Nath | Producer: Debajyoti Bora)

Award-Worthy Film Prize :

01. The Museum’s Are Closed – Life Goes On Dancing (Director: Bamba Kimball, Writer, Producer: Andy Romanoff)
02. Fight or Flight (Michelle Mae Cameron)
03. The Theatre (Jakob Schaefer, Abagail Vanmerlin, Liam Dunning)

Best Foreign Language Film Award :

01. DERUN (MUGE UGURLAR)
02. Oppa (CAPTAIN DENIL CHOONG LIN LOONG)
03. TAIBALE, story of a rescued child (Gianni Torres)
04. Ten out of the Ten (Imre Mazlo)
05. The Stranger (Sanjay Prasad)

Buddha Global Leadership Prize (in Film-Making) :

01. Journey to Bakhmut: Epilogue to “The Russian Woodpecker” (Chad Gracia)
02. DERUN (MUGE UGURLAR)
03. Aabha (Director: PALLAB ROY | Writer, Producer: PRABIR MAHAPATRA)
04. I Run Into Chairs (Barnali Ray Shukla)05. CountablyUncommon (Rich Dow)

Special Jury Awards :

Best Feature Film :
01. Fallen: The Search of A Broken Angel (Alex Kruz)
02. Rotten Society (SS Jishnu Dev)

Best Short Film :

01. Peepal (Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule)
02. Brewing Kindness (Ahana Punjabi)

Best Documentary :

01. Jeevan Kee Nadee – The River of Life (Federico Maria Baldacci)
02. RETURN TO KAWTHOOLEI: A Refugee Rapper’s Journey to His Homeland in Burma (I am Knyaw, St. Paul Minnesota, “Hons Solo” Honey Moon, “Wah Fish Paste” Shakerpaw Wah)

Best Director :

01. What Happened To You (ALEC GOLDBERG)
02. Alchemy (Bil Richardson)

Best Debut Director :

01. Grandfather and the Tap (Shivani Hemant Dorage)
02. Third-Floor (Amandeep Singh)
03. Nimbu Mirchiii (Atul Subhashrao Kamble )

Best Producer :

01. Azadi (Writer, Director: Anshul Vijayvargiya, Producer: Siddharth Kasyap)
02. PARISAN (Director, Producer: Kambiz Babaei )

Best Writer :

01. Peepal (Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule)
02. A Home for Christmas: A Foster Care Story (Kevin Ruiz)
03. Shape of Clay (Catherine Andre)

Best Script :

01. Group (William R.A. Rush)
02. „MEE TOO “Between Hope and Change” (Kima Majid)
03. Meshbari (Dipanwita Sengputa)

Best Actor / Actress :

01. Intezaar (Director : Mukund Singh Chahar | Actor: Shikha Singh Chahar)
02. Ninth Life (Director: Andy Chaplin, Actor: Helen Walling-Richards)
03. Wide Angle (Director: Jayanta Nath | Actor: Tapan Das | Producer: Debajyoti Bora)

Best Editor :

01. Four Seasons Green (wanxing meng)
02. The Lost Boys (Bryan Young, Autumn Killpack-Havey)

Best Cinematographer :

01. wonderfully desolate (Pierre De Muelenaere)
02. The Other Shore (xiao lei dong)

Best Picture :

01. Unalome ( Avijit Newar )
02. Group (William R.A. Rush)

Best Music :

01. DIL KYA KAHE (Director: Aniruddha Sharma | Music: Chandramohan)
02. Truth – Live at Convict Lake (Carlos Gayotto)

Best Sound :

01. SHOOLA (Vijith Madan Raj | Sound: Bharath Janardhan)
02. The Virtual Hunt (Nishanth Ramesh, Kamaleshwar Murugan)

Best Supporting Actor / Actress :

01. The Stranger (Sanjay Prasad | Actor: Keith Dallison)
02. The Dogs Separation (Suvahhdan Suhas Angre | Supporting Actress: Mithila Naik )

Best Actor in a Negative Role (Villain):

01. Space Eye (Kevin Mainenti | Actor: Janko Popović Volarić)
02. Kites of Solitude (Igor Sokolov)

Best Filmmaker :

01. The Virtual Hunt (Nishanth Ramesh, Kamaleshwar Murugan)
02.Pollo Loco (Derek Bauder)

Best Short Film of the Fest Award:

01. Three’s A Couple (Aditya Bhasin)
02. #KK (Arjun Pankaj Razdan)
03. DAYDREAM (William Bruno O’Keefe)

Best Feature Film of the Fest Award :

01. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI (Nikolay BogomilovDirector)
02. FOOTPRINTS (JANARDHANAN NAIR S)

Best Documentary Film of the Fest Award :
01. THE MIRROR PARAJANOV (Jérôme AMIMER)
02. CountablyUncommon (Rich Dow)

Best Film of the Fest Award :

01. The Theatre (Jakob Schaefer, Abagail Vanmerlin, Liam Dunning)
02. Arjun Chakravarthy ( Journey of an Unsung Champion ) (Vikrant Rudra)

Best Picture Award :

01. Neither me (Nikolai Kuznetsov)
02. Hidden Sea (Swati Ambekar)
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Honorable Mention Award :
01. DeadEnd (Otwin biernat)
02.Second Innings (MOHIT SRIVASTAVA)
03. Arjun Chakravarthy ( Journey of an Unsung Champion ) (Vikrant Rudra)