IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention

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Template:Infobox film award The IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention (officially known as the Silver Peacock – Special Jury Award and Special Mention) are the two honors presented annually at the International Film Festival of India for excellency in Film Art in World cinema.[1] It was first presented during the 4th IFFI 1969.[2] The award was later re-instated since 29th IFFI 1998.[3][4] On the occasion of 100 years of Indian cinema, centenary awards were conferred during 2012, 2013, and 2014.[5][6] The special mention is being awarded since the 46th IFFI 2015.[7]

List of recipients of IFFI Special Jury Award[edit | edit source]

List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Country Ref.
1969
(4th) 		Lester James Peries Golu Hadawatha Sinhala Sri Lanka [1]
Mrinal Sen Bhuvan Shome Hindi India
Sobhan Babu Bangaru Panjaram Telugu India
1998
(29th) 		Santwana Bardoloi Adajya Assamese India [3][4]
2000
(31st) 		Huo Jianqi Postmen in the Mountains Mandarin China [8]
2002
(33rd) 		Revathi Mitr, My Friend Hindi India [9]
Magdy Ahmed Ali Asrar EL-Banat Egyptian Egypt
2003
(34th) 		Subhadro Chowdhury Prohor Bengali India [10]
2004
(35th) 		Gennady Sidorov Old Women Russian Russia [11][12]
2005
(36th) 		Tom Hooper Red Dust English South Africa [13]
2006
(37th) 		Abu Sayeed Nirontor Bengali Bangladesh [14]
2007
(38th) 		Golam Rabanny Biplab On The Wings of Dreams Bengali Bangladesh [15][16]
Julia Urbini More Than Anything in the World Mexican Mexico
2008
(39th) 		Malani Fonseka Akasa Kusum Sinhala Sri Lanka [17]
2009
(40th) 		Giorgi Ovashvili The Other Bank Russian Georgia [18]
2010
(41st) 		Kaushik Ganguly Arekti Premer Golpo Bengali India [18]
Taika Waititi Boy English New Zealand
2011
(42nd) 		Salim Ahamed Adaminte Makan Abu Malayalam India [19]
2012
(43rd) 		Lucy Mulloy Una noche Spanish Cuba
United Kingdom 		[5]
2013
(44th) 		Onur Ünlü Thou Gild'st the Even Turkish Turkey [20]
2015
(46th) 		Julia Vargas-Weise Sealed Cargo Spanish Bolivia [21]
2016
(47th) 		Lee Joon-ik The Throne Korean South Korea [22]
2017
(48th) 		Mahesh Narayanan Take Off Malayalam India [23]
2018
(49th) 		Milko Lazarov Ága Yakut Bulgaria [24]
2019
(50th) 		Pema Tseden Balloon Chinese China [25]
2020
(51st) 		Kamen Kalev February Bulgarian Bulgaria [26]
2021
(52nd) 		Renata Carvalho The First Fallen Brazilian Brazil [27]
Nikhil Mahajan Godavari Marathi India
2022
(53rd) 		Lav Diaz When The Waves Are Gone Filipino Philippines [28]
2023
(54th) 		Rishab Shetty Kantara Kannada India [29]
2024
(55th) 		Louise Courvoisier Holy Cow French France [30]
2025
(56th) 		Akinola Davies Jr. My Father's Shadow English, Naija, Yoruba United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria [31]

List of recipients of IFFI Special Mention[edit | edit source]

List of Special Mention recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Country Ref.
2015
(46th) 		Goran Radovaovic Enclave Serbian Germany
Serbia 		[21]
2016
(47th) 		Tiffany Hsiung The Apology English Canada [22]
2018
(49th) 		Chezhiyan To Let Tamil India [24]
2019
(50th) 		Abhishek Shah Hellaro Gujarati India [25]
2020
(51st) 		Kripal Kalita Bridge Assamese India [26]
2021
(52nd) 		Simon Farriol The Wealth of the World English [27]
Roman Vasyanov The Dorm Russian Russia
2022
(53rd) 		Praveen Kandregula Cinema Bandi Telugu India [28]

List of recipients of IFFI Centenary Award[edit | edit source]

List of Centenary Award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
Year Recipient(s) Work(s) Language(s) Country Ref.
2012
(43rd) 		Mira Nair The Reluctant Fundamentalist English United States
India
Qatar 		[5]
2013
(44th) 		Kamaleshwar Mukherjee Meghe Dhaka Tara Bengali India [20]
2014
(45th) 		Shrihari Sathe Ek Hazarachi Note Marathi India [32]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "4th IFFI". 23 November 2019.
  2. ↑ "International Film Festival in India". rrtd.nic.in. Archived from the original on 21 November 2004. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Light In The Haze".
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Frontline.in".
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "43rd IFFI closes with Meera Nair's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'". pib.nic.in.
  6. ↑ "IFFI: Zanussi to get lifetime achievement award". 20 November 2012.
  7. ↑ Parande, Shweta (1 December 2015). "IFFI 2015: Award winners list at the 46th International Film Festival of India (In pics)".
  8. ↑ "Still no character or class". The Hindu. 6 February 2000.[dead link]
  9. ↑ Gopalakrishnan, Amulya (8 November 2002). "Tame fare at the festival". frontline.in. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Iranian film gets Golden Peacock at IFFI 2003". 19 October 2003.
  11. ↑ "Beach Screening Makes Its Debut with Mission Impossible at the 35th IFFI Goa 2004". businesswireindia.com.
  12. ↑ blanj. "The Hindu Business Line : Finally, a permanent address!". www.thehindubusinessline.com.
  13. ↑ http://www.thehindu.com/2005/12/05/stories/2005120514320100.htm [permanent dead link]
  14. ↑ "IFFI: focus on South India". The Hindu. 26 November 2006 – via www.thehindu.com.
  15. ↑ "English Releases".
  16. ↑ "Taiwan film wins Golden Peacock". The Hindu. 4 December 2007 – via www.thehindu.com.
  17. ↑ "IFFI 2008 kicks off in Goa". The Hindu. 22 November 2008. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2009.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "India wins Golden Peacock after 10 yrs – Times of India". The Times of India. 3 December 2010.
  19. ↑ "42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) – Goa – 2011 – Shadow Play India". www.shadowplayindia.com.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "'Beatriz's War' wins Golden Peacock at 44th International film festival of India – Times of India". The Times of India. December 2013.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Key highlights of the 46th International Film Festival of India". pib.nic.in.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "47th IFFI Concluded in Goa". 29 November 2016.
  23. ↑ "IFFI 2017 complete winners list: Parvathy wins Best Actress; Amitabh Bachchan is 'Film Personality of The Year'". 28 November 2017.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Donbass wins Golden Peacock at IFFI". The Hindu. 28 November 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Particles wins the Golden Peacock Award at IFFI 2019 - Times of India". The Times of India. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 "51st International Film Festival of India: Winners list". Indian Express. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 "Japanese movie 'Ring Wandering' wins Golden Peacock Award at 52nd edition of IFFI". Devdiscourse. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 "IFFI 2022 winners list: I Have Electric Dreams wins big". 28 November 2022.
  29. ↑ "Winners at IFFI54". Press Information Bureau. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  30. ↑ Naman Ramachandran, Patrick Frater (28 November 2024). "Lithuanian Drama 'Toxic' Wins Top Prize at 55th International Film Festival of India". Variety. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  31. ↑ Naman Ramachandran, Udita Jhunjhunwala (28 November 2025). "Transgender Vietnamese Drama 'Skin of Youth' Wins Top Prize at International Film Festival of India". Variety. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  32. ↑ "Russian film Leviathan wins Golden Peacock at IFFI 2014". 30 November 2014.

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