IFFI Best Debut Director Award

IFFI Best Debut Director Award
International award for contributions to World Cinema and Indian Cinema
Awarded for	Outstanding Debut Film of a Director
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)	Silver Peacock Award
First award	2016
Final award	2024
Most recent winner	Sarah Friedland and Navjyot Bandivadekar
Highlights
Total awarded	11
First winner	Papa San Martin

The IFFI Award for Best Debut Director (officially known as the Silver Peacock for the Best Debut Film of a Director) ^[1] is an honor presented annually at the International Film Festival of India since the 47th IFFI 2016 for the best debut film direction in World cinema. ^{[2] [3]} The IFFI Award for Best Indian Debut Director was instituted since the 55th IFFI 2024 for the best debut film direction in Indian cinema. ^[4]

Recipients

IFFI Best Debut Director Award (since 2016)

List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s),language(s) and Country

Year	Recipient(s)	Work(s)	Language(s)	Country	Ref.
2016 (47th)	Papa San Martin	Rara	Spanish	Spain	[5]
2017 (48th)	Kiro Russo	Dark Skull	Spanish	Spain	[6]
2018 (49th)	Treb Monteras II	Respeto	Filipino	Philippines	[7]
2019 (50th)	Amin Sidi-Boumédiène Marius Olteanu	Abou Leila Monsters.	French Romanian	France Romania	[8]
2020 (51st)	Cassio Pereira dos Santos	Valentina	Portuguese	Brazil	[9]
2021 (52nd)	Marí Alessandrini	Zahorí	Italian	Italy	[10]
2022 (53rd)	Asimina Proedrou	Behind the Haystacks	Greek	Greece	[11]
2023 (54th)	Rêger Azad Kaya	When The Seedlings Grow	Arabic	Turkey	[12]
2024 (55th)	Sarah Friedland	Familiar Touch	English	USA	[13]

IFFI Best Indian Debut Director Award (since 2024)

List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)

Year	Recipient(s)	Work(s)	Language(s)	Ref.
2024 (55th)	Navjyot Bandivadekar	Gharat Ganpati	Marathi	[14] [15]

References

1. "IFFI Goa 2016 International Competition Selections". 1 November 2016. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
2. "iffi 2016 Archive - IFFI Goa". IFFI Goa. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
3. "Indian Panorama Selections for IFFI Goa 2016". 29 October 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
4. "Five International and Two Indian Debut Directors to Compete for Silver Peacock at IFFI 2024". Press Information Bureau. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
5. "47th IFFI Concluded in Goa". 29 November 2016.
6. "IFFI 2017 complete winners list: Parvathy wins Best Actress; Amitabh Bachchan is 'Film Personality of The Year'".
7. "Donbass wins Golden Peacock at IFFI". The Hindu. 28 November 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
8. "Particles wins the Golden Peacock Award at IFFI 2019 - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
9. "51st International Film Festival of India: Winners list". Indian Express. 24 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
10. "Japanese movie 'Ring Wandering' wins Golden Peacock Award at 52nd edition of IFFI". Devdiscourse. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
11. "IFFI 2022 winners list: I Have Electric Dreams wins big". 28 November 2022.
12. "Winners at IFFI54". Press Information Bureau. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
13. 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.
14. "Five International and Two Indian Debut Directors to Compete for Silver Peacock at IFFI 2024". Press Information Bureau. 13 November 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
15. "Iffi institutes new award for debut Indian film directors". The Times of India . 15 September 2024. Retrieved 15 September 2024.