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 (2022), the category name was changed to "Best Short Film (upto 30 mins)".
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 Each2022–presentProducer 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) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1987 The Eight Column Affair English FTII Sriram Raghavan 1988 The Story of Tiblu Idu Mishmi Santosh Sivan Santosh Sivan 1989 Behula Bengali Raja Mitra Raja Mitra 1990 Aamukh Hindi FTII Rajkumar 1991 Punaravritti Hindi FTII Imo Singh Totanama Hindi Vikas Satwalekar Chandita Mukherjee 1992 Agar Aap Chahein Hindi Shahnaz Rahim for Films Division Mazahir Rahim 1993 Sunday Hindi National Center of Films for Children and Young People Pankaj Advani 1994 Still Life Hindi and English FTII Subhadro Chowdhary 1995 The Rebel Hindi John Shankarmangalam Rajashree 1996 Vidiyalai Nokki Tamil F and T and V. T. I. N. Chennai P. Venkatesh Athmeeyam Malayalam FTII Nandakumar Kavil 1997 Hypnothesis Hindi FTII Rajat Kapoor 1998 Jee Karta Tha Hindi Mohan Agashe for Films Division Hansa Thapliyal 1999 Blind Folded Tamil A. Sriram S. Sri Ram 2000 Bhor Bengali Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Ritubarna Chudgar 2001 Chaitra Marathi FTII Kranti Kanade 2002 Sunder Jibon Bengali Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Sandeep Chattopadhyay 2003 Sati Radhika Assamese Anjali Das Anjali Das 2004 Cradle Song English and Hindi Tripurari Sharan Nimisha Pandey 2005 Thackkayin Meedha Naangu Kangal Tamil Doordarshan and Ray Cinema Vasanth 2006 Ek Aadesh: Command For Choti Hindi Children's Film Society Ramesh Asher 2007 Udedh Bun Bhojpuri FTII Siddharth Sinha 2008 Stations Hindi, Marathi and English FTII Emmanuel Palo 2009 Boond Hindi Kumar Mangat Abhishek Pathak 2010 Kal 15 August Dukan Band Rahegi Hindi FTII Prateek Vats 2011 Panchakki Hindi Sanjeev Rattan Sanjeev Rattan 2012 Kaatal Marathi FTII Vikrant Pawar 2013 Mandrake ! Mandrake ! Hindi FTII Ruchir Arun 2014 Mitraa Marathi Athaansh Communications Ravindra Jadhav 2015 Aushadh Marathi Amol Deshmukh Amol Deshmukh 2016 Aaba English Raj Kumar Gupta Amar Kaushik 2017 Mayat Marathi Suyash Shinde Suyash Shinde 2018 Kharvas Marathi Aditya Suhas Jambhale Aditya Suhas Jambhale 2019 Custody Hindi Ambiecka Pandit Ambiecka Pandit 2020 Kachichinithu (The Boy with a Gun) Karbi Khanjan Kishore Nath Khanjan Kishore Nath 2021 Dal Bhat Gujarati Nemil Shah Nemil Shah 2022 Xunyota Assamese HM Production Nabapan Deka 2023 Giddh (The Scavenger) Hindi Ellanar Films Manish Saini 2024 Hamsafar Marathi Narendra Shantikumar Abhijeet Arvind Dalvi
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives