National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film

National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film
National award for contributions to non-feature films
Awarded for	Best Non-Feature Film of the year
Sponsored by	National Film Development Corporation of India
Formerly called	President's Gold Medal for the Best Documentary Film (1953–1966) Best Information Film (1967–1983)
Reward(s)	Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus) ₹3,00,000
First award	1953
Final award	2022
Most recent winner	Ayena
Highlights
Total awarded	87
First winner	Mahabalipuram

The National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the National Film Development Corporation of India. It is one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Swarna Kamal (Golden Lotus).

The award was instituted in 1953, at 1st National Film Awards and awarded annually for short films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners

Award includes 'Swarna Kamal' (Golden Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

Awards legends
*	President's Silver Medal for Best Non-Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Second Best Non-Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Non-Feature Film
*	Certificate of Merit for the Best Non-Feature Film
*	Indicates a joint award for that year

List of films, showing the year (award ceremony), language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Refs.
1953 (1st)	Mahabalipuram	English	Films Division	Jagat Murari	[1]
	Holy Himalayas	English	Films Division	K. L. Khandpur
	Tree of Wealth	English	Information Films of India	A. Bhaskar Rao
1954 (2nd)	Spirit of the Loom	English	Films Division	V. R. Sarma	[2]
	Darjeeling	English	Films Division	K. L. Khandpur
	Golden River	English	Films Division	P. V. Pathy
1955 (3rd)	Magic of Mountains	English	Films Division	Mushir Ahmed	[3]
	Wonder of Work	English	Films Division	–
	Education for Life	English	Ama Ltd.	–
1956 (4th)	Gotama The Buddha	English	Bimal Roy Productions for Films Division	Rajbans Khanna	[4]
	Khajuraho	English	Films Division	M. Wadhwani
	A Village In Travancore	English	Art Films of Asia Private Ltd. for Burmah-Shell	Fali Billimoria
1957 (5th)	A Himalayan Tapestry	English	Burmah Shell	Mohan Bhavnani	[5]
	Mandu	English	Films Division	Neil Gokhale
	Dharti Ki Jhankar	English	Films Division	Bhaskar Rao
1958 (6th)	Radha Krishna	English	Films Division	J. S. Bhownagary	[6]
	The Story of Dr. Karve	English	Films Division	•Neil Gokhale  •Ram Gabale
	Call of the Mountains	Hindi	Films Division	A. K. Chaudhuri
1959 (7th)	Kathakali	English	Films Division	Mohan Wadhwani	[7]
	Mayurakshi Dam	Hindi	Films Division	N. K. Issar
1960 (8th)	Kangra and Kulu	English	Films Division	N. S. Thapu	[8]
	Saga of Service	English	Films Division	Dilip Jamdar
	The Weavers	English	Films Division	F. R. Bilimoria
1961 (9th)	Rabindranath Tagore (Longer Version)	English	Films Division	Satyajit Ray	[9]
	Our Feathered Friends	English	Films Division	Gopal Datt
	Romance of the Indian Coin	English	Films Division	G. H. Saraiya
1962 (10th)	Four Centuries Ago	English	Films Division	Shanti Verma	[10]
	Himalayan Heritage	English	Films Division	N. S. Thapu
	The Telco Story	English	Hunnar Films	Clement Baptista
1963 (11th)	Song of the Snow	English	Films Division	N. S. Thapu	[11]
	Malwa	English	Films Division	S. N. S. Sastry
	Jain Temples of India	English	Films Division	Arun Chaudhari
1964 (12th)	One Day	English	Jagat Murari	S. N. S. Sastry	[12]
	All Under Heaven By Force	English	J. B. H. Wadia	J. B. H. Wadia
	And Miles To Go	English	S. Sukhdev	S. Sukhdev
1965 (13th)	Cloven Horizon	English	Kantilal Rathod	Kantilal Rathod	[13]
	Across India	English	Films Division	Gopal Datt
1966 (14th)
1967 (15th)	India '67	–	P. Sukhdev	P. Sukhdev	[14]
1968 (16th)	Everest	English	Arun Chowdhury for Films Division	N. S. Thapa	[15]
1969 (17th)	Amrita Sher-Gil	English	B. D. Garga	B. D. Garga	[16]
1970 (18th)	No Award				[17]
1971 (19th)	Bhutan
1972 (20th)	The Inner Eye	English	Satyajit Ray	Satyajit Ray	[18]
1973 (21st)	The Flame Burns Bright	English	Ashish Mukherjee	Ashish Mukherjee	[19]
1974 (22nd)	Man in Search of Man	English	G. P. Asthana for Films Division	Prem Vaidya for Films Division	[20]
1975 (23rd)	Winged Wonderland	English	Shanti Varma	Shanti Varma	[21]
1976 (24th)
1977 (25th)	Deshratna Rajendra Prasad	Hindi	Arvind Kumar Sinha	M. Prabhat	[22]
1978 (26th)	Rumtek: A Monastery Wrethed in a Hundred Thousand Rainbows	English	Romesh Sharma	Romesh Sharma	[23]
1979 (27th)
1980 (28th)	Daldal	Hindi	Krystyna Khote	Pradeep Dixit	[24]
1981 (29th)	Faces After The Storm	Hindi	Yash Chaudhary for Films Division	Prakash Jha	[25]
1982 (30th)	An Indian Story	English	Suhasini Mulay	Tapan K. Bose	[26]
1983 (31st)	The Procession	English	Aurora Films Corporation	Anjan Bose	[27]
1984 (32nd)	Music of Satyajit Ray	English	NFDC	Utpalendu Chakrabarty	[28]
1985 (33rd)	Bombay: Our City	English	Anand Patwardhan	Anand Patwardhan	[29]
1986 (34th)	The Land of Sand Dunes	English	Orchid Films Pvt. Ltd.	Gautam Ghose	[30]
1987 (35th)	Bhopal: Beyond Genocide	English	Cinemart Foundation	•Tapan K. Bose  • Suhasini Mulay  •Salim Shaikh	[31]
1988 (36th)	Kanaka Purandara	Kannada	Girish Karnad for Films Division	Girish Karnad	[32]
1989 (37th)	Aar Koto Din	Bengali	•Department of Information and Cultural Affairs India  • Government of West Bengal	Shashi Anand	[33]
1990 (38th)	Graven Image	English	•Sumitendra Nath Tagore  •Shyamasree Tagore	Abhijit Chattopadhyay	[34]
1991 (39th)	Sons of Abotani: The Misings	Mishing	Dilip Doley	Gautam Bora	[35]
1992 (40th)	In Search of Indian Theatre	English	Arundhati Chatterjee	Abhijit Chattopadhyay	[36]
1993 (41st)	Maihar Raag	Bengali	Sunil Shanbag	Arun Bhattacharjee	[37]
1994 (42nd)	Rasayatra	•Hindi  •English	Interaction Video Communication	Nandan Kudhyadi	[38]
1995 (43rd)	Tarana	English	Y. N. Engineer for Films Division	Rajat Kapoor	[39]
1996 (44th)	Sham's Vision	English	Manu Grover	Shaji N. Karun	[40]
1997 (45th)	Jataner Jami	Bengali	Raja Mitra and Associates	Raja Mitra	[41]
1998 (46th)	In The Forest Hangs a Bridge	English	Sanjay Kak	Sanjay Kak	[42]
1999 (47th)	Dui Paatan Ke Beech Mein (Between the Devil and the Deep River)	Hindi	Arvind Sinha	Arvind Sinha	[43]
2000 (48th)	Rasikpriya	•Hindi  •English	Ministry of External Affairs	Arun Vasant Khopkar	[44]
2001 (49th)	Sonal	•Hindi  •English	Films Division	Prakash Jha	[45]
2002 (50th)	Narayan Gangaram Surve	Marathi	Khayal Trust	Arun Khopkar	[46]
2003 (51st)	War and Peace	English	Anand Patwardhan	Anand Patwardhan	[47]
	Kaya Poochhe Maya Se	Hindi	Arvind Sinha	Arvind Sinha
2004 (52nd)	Girni	Marathi	Tripurari Sharan for FTII	Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni	[48]
2005 (53rd)	Riding Solo to the Top of the World	English	•Gaurav A. Jani  •P. T. Giridhar Rao	Gaurav A. Jani	[49]
2006 (54th)	Bishar Blues	English	Amitabh Chakraborty	Amitabh Chakraborty	[50]
2007 (55th)	Hope Dies Last in War	•English  •Hindi	Supriyo Sen	Supriyo Sen	[51]
2008 (56th)	AFSPA 1958	• Meitei  •Hindi	•Bachaspa Timayun Sunzu  • Haobam Paban Kumar	Haobam Paban Kumar	[52]
2009 (57th)	The Postman	Tamil	K. Hariharan	B. Manohar	[53]
	Bilal	•Bengali  •Hindi	Sourav Sarangi	Sourav Sarangi
2010 (58th)	Germ	Hindi	Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute	Snehal R. Nair	[54]
2011 (59th)	And We Play On	•Hindi  •English	Pramod Purswane	Pramod Purswane	[55]
2012 (60th)	Shepherds of Paradise	• Gujari  •Urdu	Raja Shabir Khan	Raja Shabir Khan	[56]
2013 (61st)	Rangbhoomi	Hindi	Films Division	Kamal Swaroop	[57]
2014 (62nd)	Tender Is The Sight	Bengali	Films Division	Torsha Banerjee	[58]
2015 (63rd)	Amdavad Ma Famous	•Gujarati  •Hindi	•Akanksha Tewari  •Arya A. Menon	Hardik Mehta	[59]
2016 (64th)	FireFlies in the Abyss	English	Chandrasekhar Reddy	Chandrasekhar Reddy	[60]
2017 (65th)	No Award
2018 (66th)	Son Rise		V2 Films and Design Pvt. Ltd.	Vibha Bakshi	[61]
	The Secret Life of Frogs		Bedi Universal	•Ajay Bedi  • Vijay Bedi
2019 (67th)	An Engineered Dream	Hindi	Hemant Gaba	Hemant Gaba	[62]
2020 (68th)	Testimony of Ana	Dangi	Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda	Sachin Dheeraj Mudigonda	[63]
2021 (69th)	Ek Tha Gaon	Hindi	Shreya Kapadiya	Ankit Kothari	[64]
2022 (70th)	Ayena	Hindi Urdu	Teh Films	Siddhant Sarin	[65]

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External links

• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India
• National Film Awards Archives