BEST FILM : RAUF (Soner Caner , Baris Caya) Turkey
BEST DIRECTOR : HANNA POLAK (Something better to come) Denmark, Poland RUCHIKA OBEROI (Island City) India
BEST ACTRESS : TANISHTA CHATTERJEE (Island City) India
BEST ACTOR : RAGHUVIR YADAV (The Silence) India
BEST PHOTOGRAPHY : VEDAT ÖZDEMIR (Rauf) Turkey
BEST MUSIC : RICHARD FORD (Radio Set) India
BEST CHILD ACTOR : ALEN HUSEYIN GURSO (Rauf) Turkey ALI AKBAR SAHRAIE (The sea and the flying fish) Iran
BEST SHORT : MOUSSE (John Hellberg) Sweden
SPECIAL RECOGNITION : TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (TISS) India
The festival pays lot of attention to gender issues. So we are obligued to add this text of Nishta Jain and Nagraj Manjule :
Nagraj Manjule’s words have stayed etched in my mind since I read them a couple of weeks ago after the release of his film Sairat. His words ring true especially in the context of the men and women of our elite institutions denying the charges of widely prevalent misogyny. It might be well worth for all of us to pay attention to his words. Rarely a man has spoken so honestly on the subject of men’s treatment of women. It requires rare courage to speak this:
“I am tired of this world created by men, ruined by men. I want a woman now to build the world or mess it up. I also realise that a woman is the Dalit in every case. Even when you look at savarnas [forward castes], the woman is secondary. Even a Dalit man would look down upon a savarna woman. Yet, the fact is that half the world is populated by women. We are fighting small fights — Hindus versus Muslims, Dalits versus upper castes. Gender is the bigger battle. I am tired of the man within me. I also want to change. You get unconsciously trapped in male values. You are superior only because you happen to be a man. I want a break from this male-dominated world.”
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