IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention

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]

IFFI Special Jury Award and Special Mention
International award for contributions to World Cinema
Awarded forExcellency in Film Art
Sponsored byDirectorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)Special Jury Award
Special Mention
First awarded1969
Last awarded2023
Most recent winnerLouise Courvoisier
Holy Cow (2024)
Highlights
Total awarded42
First winnerLester James Peries
Last winnerLav Diaz
Praveen Kandregula

List of recipients of IFFI Special Jury Award

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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 Aly 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]

List of recipients of IFFI Special Mention

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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

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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 [31]

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