The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film 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 (including documentaries, short films, etc) and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1953, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.
Winners
Award includes 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
Awards legends
List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1953 Mahabalipuram English Films Division Jagat Murari Holy Himalayas English Films Division K. L. Khandpur Tree of Wealth English Information Films of India A. Bhaskar Rao 1954 Spirit of the Loom English Films Division V. R. Sarma Darjeeling English Films Division K. L. Khandpur Golden River English Films Division P. V. Pathy 1955 Magic of Mountains English Films Division Mushir Ahmed Wonder of Work English Films Division Education for Life English Ama Ltd. 1956 Gotama The Buddha English Bimal Roy Productions for Films Division Rajbans Khanna Khajuraho English Films Division M. Wadhwani A Village In Travancore English Art Films of Asia Private Ltd. for Burmah-Shell Fali Billimoria 1957 A Himalayan Tapestry English Burmah Shell Mohan Bhavnani Mandu English Films Division Neil Gokhale Dharti Ki Jhankar English Films Division Bhaskar Rao 1958 Radha Krishna English Films Division J. S. Bhownagary The Story of Dr. Karve English Films Division Neil Gokhale and Ram Gabale Call of the Mountains Hindi Films Division A. K. Chaudhuri 1959 Kathakali English Films Division Mohan Wadhwani Mayurakshi Dam Hindi Films Division N. K. Issar 1960 Kangra and Kulu English Films Division N. S. Thapu Saga of Service English Films Division Dilip Jamdar The Weavers English Films Division F. R. Bilimoria 1961 Rabindranath Tagore English Films Division Satyajit Ray Our Feathered Friends English Films Division Gopal Datt Romance of the Indian Coin English Films Division G. H. Saraiya 1962 Four Centuries Ago English Films Division Shanti Verma Himalayan Heritage English Films Division N. S. Thapu The Telco Story English Hunnar Films Clement Baptista 1963 Song of the Snow English Films Division N. S. Thapu Malwa English Films Division S. N. S. Sastry Jain Temples of India English Films Division Arun Chaudhari 1964 One Day English Jagat Murari S. N. S. Sastry All Under Heaven By Force English J. B. H. Wadia J. B. H. Wadia And Miles To Go English S.Sukhdev S.Sukhdev 1965 Cloven Horizon English Kantilal Rathod Kantilal Rathod Across India English Films Division Gopal Datt 1966Glimpses of West BengalEnglish 1967 India '67 S.Sukhdev S.Sukhdev 1968 Everest English Arun Chowdhury for Films Division N. S. Thapa 1969 Amrita Sher-Gil English B. D. Garga B. D. Garga 1970 No Award 1971Bhutan 1972 The Inner Eye English Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray 1973 The Flame Burns Bright English Ashish Mukherjee Ashish Mukherjee 1974 Man in Search of Man English G. P. Asthana for Films Division Prem Vaidya for Films Division 1975 Winged Wonderland English Shanti Varma Shanti Varma 1976 No Award 1977 Deshratna Rajendra Prasad Hindi Arvind Kumar Sinha M. Prabhat 1978 Rumtek: A Monastery Wrethed in a Hundred Thousand Rainbows English Romesh Sharma Romesh Sharma 1979 No Award 1980 Daldal Hindi Krystyna Khote Pradeep Dixit 1981 Faces After The Storm Hindi Yash Chaudhary for Films Division Prakash Jha 1982 An Indian Story English Suhasini Mulay Tapan K. Bose 1983 The Procession English Aurora Films Corporation Anjan Bose 1984 Music of Satyajit Ray English NFDC Utpalendu Chakrabarty 1985 Bombay: Our City English Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan 1986 The Land of Sand Dunes English Orchid Films Pvt. Ltd. Gautam Ghose 1987 Bhopal: Beyond Genocide English Cinemart Foundation Tapan K. Bose, Suhasini Mulay and Salim Shaikh 1988 Kanaka Purandara Kannada Girish Karnad for Films Division Girish Karnad 1989 Aar Koto Din Bengali Department of Information and Cultural Affairs India and Government of West Bengal Shashi Anand 1990 Graven Image English Sumitendra Nath Tagore and Shyamasree Tagore Abhijit Chattopadhyay 1991 Sons of Abotani: The Misings Mishing Dilip Doley Gautam Bora 1992 In Search of Indian Theatre English Arundhati Chatterjee Abhijit Chattopadhyay 1993 Maihar Raag Bengali Sunil Shanbag Arun Bhattacharjee 1994 Rasayatra Hindi and English Interaction Video Communication Nandan Kudhyadi 1995 Tarana English Y. N. Engineer for Films Division Rajat Kapoor 1996 Sham's Vision English Manu Grover Shaji N. Karun 1997 Jataner Jami Bengali Raja Mitra and Associates Raja Mitra 1998 In The Forest Hangs a Bridge English Sanjay Kak Sanjay Kak 1999 Dui Paatan Ke Beech Mein(Between the Devil and the Deep River) Hindi Arvind Sinha Arvind Sinha 2000 Rasikpriya Hindi and English Ministry of External Affairs Arun Vasant Khopkar 2001 Sonal Hindi and English Films Division Prakash Jha 2002 Narayan Gangaram Surve Marathi Khayal Trust Arun Khopkar 2003 War and Peace English Anand Patwardhan Anand Patwardhan Kaya Poochhe Maya Se Hindi Arvind Sinha Arvind Sinha 2004 Girni Marathi Tripurari Sharan for FTII Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni 2005 Riding Solo to the Top of the World English Gaurav A. Jani and P. T. Giridhar Rao Gaurav A. Jani 2006 Bishar Blues English Amitabh Chakraborty Amitabh Chakraborty 2007 Hope Dies Last in War English and Hindi Supriyo Sen Supriyo Sen 2008 AFSPA, 1958 Meitei and Hindi Bachaspa Timayun Sunzu and Haobam Paban Kumar Haobam Paban Kumar 2009 The Postman Tamil K. Hariharan B. Manohar Bilal Bengali and Hindi Sourav Sarangi Sourav Sarangi 2010 Germ Hindi Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Snehal R. Nair 2011 And We Play On Hindi and English Pramod Purswane Pramod Purswane 2012 Shepherds of Paradise Gujari and Urdu Raja Shabir Khan Raja Shabir Khan 2013 Rangbhoomi Hindi Films Division Kamal Swaroop 2014 Tender is The Sight Bengali Films Division Torsha Banerjee 2015 Amdavad Ma Famous Gujarati and Hindi Akanksha Tewari and Arya A. Menon Hardik Mehta 2016 FireFlies in the AbyssEnglishChandrasekhar ReddyChandrasekhar Reddy 2017 No Award 2018 Son Rise V2 Films and Design Pvt. Ltd. Vibha Bakshi The Secret Life of Frogs Bedi Universal Ajay Bedi and Vijay Bedi 2019 An Engineered DreamHindiHemant GabaHemant Gaba 2020 Testimony of AnaDangiSachin Dheeraj MudigondaSachin Dheeraj Mudigonda 2021 Ek Tha GaonHindiShreya KapadiyaAnkit Kothari 2022 AyenaHindi and UrduTeh FilmsSiddhant Sarin 2023 Flowering ManHindiFilm and Television Institute of India Soumyajit Ghosh Dastidar 2024 BhangaarMarathi and English Sumira Roy Sumira Roy
References
External links Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India National Film Awards Archives