Grand Celebration of New Delhi Film Festival, 'Maa Kaali' Wins Best Feature Fiction Film Award

Major Award Winners:

✅ Best Feature Fiction Film Award – Maa Kaali (Directed by Vijay Yelakanti, India)

✅ Best Documentary Feature Film Award – Brendan Gleeson's Farewell To Hughes's (Directed by Ciarán Ó Maonaigh, Ireland)

✅ Best Animation Feature/Documentary Film Award – Outsider. Freud (Directed by Yair Qedar, Austria)

✅ Best Animation Short Film Award – Baahubali: Crown of Blood Season 1 - Episode 6 (Directed by Jeevan J. Kang, Navin John, India)

✅ Best Short Fiction Film Award – Ansuni Chinkhe (Directed by Parthasarathi Mahanta, India)

✅ Best Documentary Short Film Award – The Poem We Sang (Directed by Annie Sakkab, Palestine)

✅ Best Mobile Short Film Award – Broken (Directed by Ayush Bansal, India)

✅ Best Web Series Award – Your Democracy (Directed by Gloria Jene’ Browne-Marshall, USA)

✅ Best Screenplay Award – Sons of Abraham (Written by Juliana Marchand, USA)

Festival Highlights:

➡️ Screening of five top films before the awards ceremony.

➡️ A massive crowd gathered to watch Raima Sen-starrer 'Maa Kaali'.

➡️ Maa Kaali follows a young journalist investigating the celebration of the 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by a Bengali refugee camp. Her journey uncovers the dark events of August 16, 1946 – Jinnah’s Direct Action Day – which led to brutal massacres and forever changed the lives of Hindu Bengalis.

Industry Leaders’ Remarks:

???? T. P. Aggarwal: "I have been associated with the cinema industry for the past four decades. At one point, film culture in Delhi was nearly vanishing, but the New Delhi Film Festival has revived it. I hope the next edition will extend to three to five days."

???? Festival Founder Hanu Roj: "Yes! The next edition will be a three-day event!"

NDFF 2025 successfully showcased the best of Indian and global cinema, providing an unforgettable experience to film lovers in Delhi.

NDFF Director Satish Kapoor thanked everyone and promised to reunite in the next edition.

???? For more details and the full list of awards: https://jiffindia.org/delhi/