IFFI Best Director Award

IFFI Best Director Award
International award for contributions to World Cinema
Awarded for	Outstanding Film Director
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)	Silver Peacock Award
First award	2000
Final award	2024
Most recent winner	Bogdan Muresanu
Highlights
Total awarded	25
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]}

Recipients

IFFI Best Director Award (2009–Present)

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

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

IFFI Most Promising Asian Director Award (2000–2008)

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

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

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