IFFI Best Director Award

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IFFI Best Director Award
International award for contributions to World Cinema
Awarded forOutstanding Film Director
Sponsored by Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)Silver Peacock Award
First awarded2000
Last awarded2024
Most recent winnerBogdan Muresanu
Highlights
Total awarded25
First winner Nonzee Nimibutr

The IFFI Award for Best Director (officially known as the Silver Peacock for the Best Director Award) is an honor presented annually at the International Film Festival of India since the 40th IFFI 2009 for the best direction in World cinema. [1] [2] Earlier the award was presented as the "Silver Peacock for the Most Promising Asian Director" during "31st IFFI 2000" to "39th IFFI 2008" [3] [4]

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Recipients

IFFI Best Director Award (2009–Present)

List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
YearRecipient(s)Work(s)Language(s)Ref.
2009
(40th) 		Ounie Lecomte A Brand New Life Korean [5]
2010
(41st) 		Susanne Bier "In a Better World" Danish [5]
2011
(42nd) 		Asghar Farhadi "A Separation" Persian [6]
2012
(43rd) 		Jeon Kyu-hwan The Weight Korean [7]
2013
(44th) 		Kaushik Ganguly Apur Panchali Bengali [8]
2014
(45th) 		Nadav Lapid "The Kindergarten Teacher" Hebrew [9]
2015
(46th) 		Peter Greenaway "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" Spanish [10]
2016
(47th) 		Soner Kanar and Baris Kaya"Rauf" Turkish [11]
2017
(48th) 		Vivian Qu Angels Wear White Chinese [12]
2018
(49th) 		Lijo Jose Pellissery "Ee.Ma.Yau." Malayalam [13]
2019
(50th) 		Lijo Jose Pellissery"Jallikattu"Malayalam [14]
2020
(51st) 		Chen-Nien Ko"The Silent Forest" Taiwanese [15]
2021
(52nd) 		Václav Kadrnka Saving One Who Was Dead Czech [16]
2022
(53rd) 		Nader Saeivar"No End" Persian [17]
2023
(54th) 		Stephan Komandarev Blaga's Lessons Bulgarian [18]
2024
(55th) 		Bogdan Muresanu The New Year That Never Came Romanian [19]

IFFI Most Promising Asian Director Award (2000–2008)

List of Silver Peacock award recipients, showing the year, film(s) and language(s)
YearRecipient(s)Work(s)Language(s)Ref.
2000
(31st) 		Nonzee Nimibutr "Nang Nak" Thai [3]
2002
(33rd) 		Reza Mirkarimi "zir e noor e maah" ("Under the Moonlight") Persian [20]
2003
(34th) 		Ra'anan Alexandrowicz "James' Journey to Jerusalem" Hebrew [21]
2004
(35th) 		Ekachai Uekrongtham "Beautiful Boxer" Thai [22] [23]
2005
(36th) 		Vera Fogwill "Kept and Dreamless" Spanish [24]
2006
(37th) 		An Kung-Lee"A Short Life" Korean [25]
2007
(38th) 		Pongpat Wachirabunjong "Me... Myself" Thai [26] [27]
2008
(39th) 		Sergey Dvortsevoy "Tulpan" Kazakh [28]

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