The IFFI Best Film Award (officially known as the Golden Peacock for the Best Feature Film) is the main prize of the International Film Festival of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with the Golden Peacock a representation of the Peacock, India’s national bird, with a permanent motto of the festival Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The whole world is a family). The award is announced for films produced in a year across the world. The award was instituted in 1965 from the 3rd IFFI competitive edition.
List of recipients The award carries a cash prize of shared equally between the director and producer. The director will receive the Golden Peacock and a certificate in addition to the cash prize. The producer will receive a certificate in addition to the cash.
Golden Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film) Year Film Original Title Director Country1965 GamperaliyaLester James Peries 1969The Damned Luchino Visconti1974 Dreaming Youth János Rózsás 1977 Brother and Sister Ani ImōtoTadashi Imai 1979 Hungarian Rhapsody Miklós Jancsó 1981 The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes Rangel Valchanov AakroshGovind Nihalani1983 Not Awarded Not Awarded Not Awarded Not Awarded1985 The Bostonians James Ivory Ruthless RomanceEldar Ryazanov1987Farewell Green SummerProshal Zelen LetaElyer Ishmukhamedov 1996 Blush Li Shaohong 1998 The King of Masks Wu Tianming 2000 Karunam Karunam Jayaraj Railroad ManPoppoyaYasuo Furuhata 2002 Letters to Elza Igor Maslennikov 2003 At Five in the Afternoon Panj é asrSamira Makhmalbaf / 2004 The Beautiful City Shah-re zibaAsghar Farhadi 2005 Iron Island Jazireh ahaniMohammad Rasoulof 2006 The Old Barber Hasi Chaolu 2007 The Wall Lin Chih Ju 2008 Tulpan Sergei Dvortsevoy / 2009 Cannot Live Without YouLeon Dai 2010 Moner Manush Gautam Ghose 2011 Porfirio Alejandro Landes / 2012 Anhe Ghore Da Daan Gurvinder Singh2013 Beatriz's War A Guerra da BeatrizLuigi Acquisto / Bety Reis2014 Leviathan LeviafanAndrey Zvyagintsev 2015 Embrace of the Serpent El abrazo de la serpienteCiro Guerra 2016 Daughter Dokhtar Reza Mirkarimi 2017 BPM (Beats per Minute) Robin Campillo 2018 Donbass Sergei Loznitsa 2019 Particles Les particules Blaise Harrison / 2020 Into the Darkness De forbandede år Anders Refn 2021 Ring Wandering リング・ワンダリング Masakazu Kaneko 2022 I Have Electric Dreams Tengo sueños eléctricos Valentina Maurel 2023 Endless Borders Abbas Amini 2024 Toxic Akiplėša Saulė Bliuvaitė2025 Skin of Youth Ash Mayfair
Discontinued awards
Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film) Edition Film Director Country 3rd Nirjan Saikate Tapan Sinha 29th Paper Airplanes Farhad Mehhranfar 45th Ek Hazarachi Note Shrihari Sathe
Golden Peacock Award winners (Best Short Film) Edition Film Country 3rd Cyclone4thTaking off at 1800 Hours5th Automatic6th After the Silence7th An Encounter with FacesOlympic Games8th A Period of Transition9th Not AwardedNot Awarded10th Narcissus11th Not AwardedNot Awarded
Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Short Film) Edition Film Country 4th Man and the Crow
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India