BIFA - Bollywood International Film Awards

Submit your precious Short or Mid or Long Length Films - Filmfreeway.com/BollywoodAwards

Winners - Bollywood International Film Awards- 2026:

Short Film:

- Best Short Film Award -

1) Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)

2) Utsuwa (Akiyoshi Shibata)

3) Aging Dreams (SRINIVASA BOBBILI)

4) Tumhare Khat- Your Letters (Gautam Chaturvedi)

- Best Director Award -

1) A KNIFE IN THE MOONLIGHT (Manoj Koloth)

2) Paranormal Party Thriller (Danny MAlin)

3) SORRY MAA (PARAG CHHAPEKAR)

4) The Bottle (Ashutosh Trivedi)

- Best Writer Award -

1) An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn)

2) Final Whisper (Director: Sahir Shaikh | Writer, Producer: Iftikhar Ahmad Khurram)

3) Side Steps (Director: Jerry Johnson Vithayathil)

4) Anjali (Director, Writer: Francis Mead, Prabhat Gurung)

- Best Editor Award -

1) Sapperlot (Werner Biedermann)

2) Children at the rooftop cinema (Director: 侑紀刷場)

3) Believe In Love (Stacey Simon)

- Best Cinematographer / DOP Award -

1) The absolute (Monica Ravalico)

2) The Ride (Director: Ashwin Alok | Producer: Kreative Krew

3) A MOTHER'S LOVE (Mutterliebe) (Director: Harald Schwarzenbacher | DOP: Willy Dettmeyer)

- Best Actor / Actress Award -

1) Salary (in the veins of this tree) (Director: Kamran Hamzehloo | Actor: Mir hamed Koochaki)

2) Between Sand and Skyline (Sherin Paul | Actress: Jamila Alblooshi)

3) Justice (Director: Brian Deatt | Actor: Timo Wolfram)

4) AM (Alexia Vasiliou)

Feature Film:

- Best Feature Film Award :

1) KAARA... A CUSTOM (SUNIL BADONI)

2) Dark Secret (Director: Munkhtumur Dondow | Producer: Chinguun Balkhjav | Writer: Selenge Chadraabal)

3) A Matador in Paris (Troy Henriksen)

- Best Director Award :

1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)

2) Devil's Game (Tereza Hirsch)

- Best Writer Award :

1) Love, & Duct Tape (Danny MAlin)

2) Misty Morning (Anselmo Garcia)

Documentary :
- Best Documentary Film Award -

1) Bipolar What they don’t tell you (Duchess letitia Antoinette Kapuscinska)

2) Who Dat" The JT Money Story (Dante S Briggins)

3) RMV The Kingmaker (Binu Subramaniyam | Sathya Movies)

4) My Gray World (Petro Aleksowski)

- Best Director Award -

1) Michigan Visits Matter: The Family Cost of Incarceration (Bryce Mackie)

2) Colors of Silence (Narine Gevorgyan)

3) The Deep Dive (Blair Murphy)

Animated Short Film:
- Best Animated Short Film Award -

1) In Half (Jorge Morais Valle)

2) El cruce (Publio César de la Vega García)

3) World Naked Bike Tour (William Bradford)

- Best Director Award -

1) Time Settles (Julia Gromskaya)

2) तहानलेली हाक/Tahanlelee Haak (Apurv Gautam)

3) THE BLACK SMOKE OF PREDICTION... (Director: damir dado šuša | Production: Zagreb Film)

Experimental Short Film:
- Best Experimental Short Film Award -

1) Dystutopic (Mimi Garrard)

2) The Flickering Experiment (Kostiantyn Mishchenko)

3) Dancing In My Sorrows (Parris Lane)

- Best Director Award :

1) RYSE of the 1NES (Jason Caston)

2) LIFE ,DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES (Simone Izzo Izzo)

3) Refugee (Mülteci) (Özlem Mengükan)

- Smartphone Short Film:

- Best Smartphone Short Film Award -

1) OVERTHINKING (Gianmaria Fiorillo)

2) This Is it! (Ratnakar Kulkarni)

- Music Video:

- Best Music Video Award -

1) Chaton - From the Future (Marcus CB Soori)

2) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)

- Best Director Award -

1) VANDE MATARAM – Lieutenant Norman Bhairava (Goutham Kool Monkk)

2) Thank God For The Dreamers (Director, Producer: Jay Carney)

Best Lyrics Award -

1) Ram Aaye by DJ VaibhaV Thakar (Vaibhav Thakar)

2) The Perfumed Garden - Ananda Xenia Shakti/Love Power The Band (Ananda Xenia Shakti)

Web Series:
- Best Web Series Award -

1) Drive On: Lessons in Resilience from a Combat Physician (Director: Scott DeLuzio, Writer: Josh McConkey)

2) Untold Life (Purushottam Dandekar)

Screenplay Category:
- Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Feature) -

1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)

2) Love Experiments (Andry Platrites)

3) End of the Century (Anselmo Garcia)

4) The Trouble with Weekends (Daniel Lester Phillips)

5) X9 (Sam Speron)

- Best Screenplay Award (SCREENPLAY Short) -

1) PANTHEON (Writers: Tayfun Uçar, Deniz Uçar, Güneş Çavuş)

2) Fortunata (Max Oliva)

3) Short Boxes (rob taylor)

Film Poster:
- Best Film Poster Award -

1) KALI (Desirée Malinowski)

2) Alive not Dead (Bansilal Pagaria)

- Best Photography Award -

1) Dream of Happiness (Pawan Tiwari)

2) Sachchai (Kaveri Nirmal)

---

Trailer:

- Best Trailer Award -

1) Stable Life (Trisha Nair)

2) Journey to the Core (Dinesh Joshi)

Best Multimedia Film -

1) The Cure (Trix StarT)

2) Ultimate Vision (Reema Lihine)

---

Special Awards -

Best Director Award -

1) Staten Island Ghost Story (Director, Writer, Producer: Vincent J Mazella)

2) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (Director: JULEE JASMIN \ Writer: DIWAKAR PRAVEEN \ Producer: Salim Akhtar)

3) An Ever After Drama (Director, Writer, Producer: Michelle Lynn)

---

Special Jury Awards -

Best Short Film -

1) Prowl (Rohit Menon)

Best Feature Film -

1) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (JULEE JASMIN)

Best Documentary Film -

1) I am only a duck (Solo soy un pato) (Director: Fran Ruiz | Writer: Julia Elizalde)

---

Best Feature Film of the Year Award -

1) Gaav Bolavato [The Village Calls] (Director: Vinod Manikrao | Producer: Prashant Madhukar Narode, Ganesh Ingole)

Best Documentary of the year Award -

1) Ants' eyes (BAI XIN)

---

- Best Director of the Year Award -

1) KAARA... A CUSTOM (SUNIL BADONI)

2) Mera School (Ganesh Hanmantrao Chowgule)

---

- Best Debut Director of the year Award -

1) Dharau (Manish Shinde)

---

- Best Actor of the Year Award -

1) Land of the Mustaches (Director: Leon Joosen | Writer, Producer, Actor: Rutanya Alda)

2) Be Kind ! (Antoine Béguin | Actors: Rufus, Maryvonne SCHILTZ)

---

- Best Screenwriter of the Year Award -

1) Behind the Algorithm (Michelle Lynn Taubman)

2) KALI (Desirée Malinowski)

3) Forty Nine Degrees of Separation (John Croll Walsh)

---

- Best Screenplay of the Year Award -

1) DITTO (Suresh G)

2) Secrets of Montmartre 2 (Michelle Lynn)

3) WHEN WE WERE GUYS (simone izzo)

4) Golden Years My Ass! (Rain Story)

---

- Best Story of the year Award -

1) KALI (Desirée Malinowski)

---

- Best Picture of the Year Award -

1) Dark Secret (Director: Munkhtumur Dondow | Producer: Chinguun Balkhjav | Writer: Selenge Chadraabal)

---

Best DOP / Cinematographer of the year Award :

1) Time is Money (Bharat Patel)

---

Best Short Film of the year Award :

1) An Ever After Drama (Michelle Lynn)

---

- Best Foreign Film of the year Award -

1) Let’s go! Love Ishinomaki “United smiles across the world” (TOMOHISA ISHIGAMI)

2) Land of the Mustaches (Director: Leon Joosen | Writer, Producer, Actor: Rutanya Alda)

---

-- Bollywood Jury Award :

1) Mystery on the Vegan Express (David Giardina)

2) DAAL ROTI / BREAD & BUTTER (Director: JULEE JASMIN \ Writer: DIWAKAR PRAVEEN \ Producer: Salim Akhtar)

3) Modern Frankenstein (Gabriel Jeanne)

4) KADIN (Veyis Sarıkaya)

- Best Filmmaker of the Year Award -

1) Honeymoonay Namah (Nishant Bhardwaj)

2) Chashma (Spectacles) (Ritesh Bhaskaran)

- Best Singer of the year Award :

1) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)

2) Melodies of Maval (Satish Jadhav)

- Best Music Of the Year Award :

1) YOU GOTTA DANCE (BRiAN BiLLiONAiRE)

2) Dancing In My Sorrows (Director, Music : Parris Lane)

3) In Paris (Michelle Lynn)

- Best Sound of the Year Award :

1) Bipolar What they don’t tell you (Duchess letitia Antoinette Kapuscinska)

2) Untold Secrets of Life (Ramesh Tandale)

- BEST YOUTUBER AWARD -

1) Drive On: Lessons in Resilience from a Combat Physician (Director: Scott DeLuzio, Writer: Josh McConkey)

2) Kathpadar Saree (Writer, Director: Devayani )

- BEST AI FILM DIRECTOR AWARD -

1) 2080 New Family (Jaeyong Choi)

Welcome to - Bollywood International ilm Awards - Most Welcome! - Global Filmakers

International, National - Short Films, Feature Films, Doumentary Films, Music Videos, Web Series, TV Series, Screenplays, Experimental Shorts, Smartphone Shorts, Animated Short Films, And Many Special Categories...

---

An Ocean of Opportunities; MUMBAI

Mumbai Film Awards - So friends, let's begin the journey, you are most welcome to dive into the ocean of audio-visual life. Welcome! submit your Short & Feature Films, Documentaries, Music Videos, Web & TV Series, Animated, Experimental & Smartphone Short Films, Screenplays, Trailers, Posters and many more art forms. Come let's explore life; ... This is the Online Film Festival; Awards

Film Awards

Peak of the Mountain of Film Industry

Mumbai is another name for life; Yes we can surely say that. One can definitely feel, identify, understand & glorify the real meaning of life while entering into this mesmerizing land of Film, Corporate & Nature and and yes one more thing, The land of "Mumbai Spirit". Yes it's a kind of different phenomenon, one can only experience & then simply salute...

World of Cinema

Imagine - Create - Celebrate

So Let's begin this journey called life together, through the infinite stories, overflowing dreams & abundance of possibilities... We always try our best to give response to today’s global world with our emotional heart of cinema & intellectual mind of movie, above all we wish to flourish our film of friendship for the greatness of mankind through this awesome bond of film festival & filmmakers.

Spread the Creativity

Awards

Here we are for the filmmakers to support them to make their film career & journey of life more beautiful. So we share many official selections and many awards too to the selected works.

- Feature Films

Best Feature Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

- Short Films - Documenatry Films

Best Short Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards
--

Best Documentary Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

Special Awards

Other Special Awards for particular categories -

Best Producer Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

- Animated - Experimental

Best Animated Short Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Animator Awards

Best Experimental Short Film Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Screenplay Awards

Best Smartphone Short Film Awards
Best Director Awards
Best Writer Awards
Best Editor Awards
Best Music Awards
Best Actor/Actress Awards
Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards
Best Cinematographer Awards

Web Series - TV Series

Best Web Series Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

Best TV Series Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Writer Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

Best Screenplay Awards
Best Ad Film Awards
Best Trailer Awards
Best Film Poster
Best game Awards
Best Virtual Reality Film Awards

- Music Video

Best Music Video Awards

Best Director Awards

Best Editor Awards

Best Music Awards

Best Actor/Actress Awards

Best Supporting Actor/Actress Awards

Best Cinematographer Awards

Best Singer Awards

Best Song Writer / Lyricist Awards

- Screenplays -

Best Screenplay Awards

Best Story Award

Best Dialouge Writing Award

Best Concept Award

Best Theme Award

Rules & Regulations

All Genres All Categories

Fiction Non-Fiction Feature / Full Length Short Length Mid Length - Intrnational - National

Rules & Conditions:

Bollywood International Film Awards is open for feature films and short films of fiction, narrative, live, animation, documentary, experimental, smartphone, multimedia, as well as video-art, video clips, music, screenplays, narrative, commercial & social; national and international with all genres.
BIFA is the short form for Bollywood International Film Awards.

All cinematographic works must have been completed after January 1, 2009.
Responsible for the film: Any natural or legal person of any nationality can participate.

Number of films per representative: each artist can submit an unlimited number of films.

Submit to explore more

#Bollywood the Heart of an Indian Film Industry

Drama Romance Action Comedy Fantacy & All others

The registration of films to the Festival takes place through all portals where we have officially listed our festival. We must receive confirmation of participation through one of these platforms, which includes an online link. The participant must ensure that the password does not change until the Festival ends.

The director or producer who holds the rights must register the film before our deadlines are mentioned on portals where we have listed our festival for submission.

We accept films with all Languages with English subtitles. even silent films are most welcome.

All winning films will be given a digital Award Certificate in .Jpg format.

Once the film is registered, it can not be withdrawn from the Festival's programming and fees will not be refunded.
read more

#BollywoodFilmAwards are the wings to make your Journey more robust towards Oscar & all Elite Awards

#Documentay #FeatureFilm #ShortFilm #Animated #Experimental #MusicVideo #Screenplay & Many

Selections:
Bollywood International Film Festival considers a feature film when the film lasts more than 50 minutes.
Indo Global International Film Festival considers a short film up to a maximum of 50 minutes. Our Jury's decision about each and every film's selection or rejection is the final decision, there is no scope for any argument.

Fees:
The fees for the submissions are mentioned on the portal where filmmakers will submit the films. BIFA has the total rights to change the fees before, after & during the film festival, according to the situation.

We request you to see this process of film submission & selection with good sportsmanship. but if anything goes wrong the jurisdiction for the disputes will be Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. But we always want to support all filmmakers so together we will definitely win. We want to convey you the straight message that humanity & understanding is the key as we are here to support you.

Curator-ship: The Pre-Selection Committee will be made up of BIFA members, who will carry out their work according to the parameters of quality and creativity previously set by the Festival Management, to choose the OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE FESTIVAL.

Official Selection: The responsible for the selected film will be notified via email.
Jury: A qualified jury will evaluate the films of the OFFICIAL SELECTION to choose the winners for each category.
As we are the Online Film Festival, So we don't do the projection of films.
During the celebration of the festival, if needed, the organization reserves the right to exhibit the selected films in as many public sessions as it deems convenient, at no cost to the festival.
We only publish winners list (film names) on our website and keep it on the website for 15 days or if needed more. As this is our social initiative to support more and more filmmakers from all across the globe.

Join the Initiative