Nausheen Khan’s Land of My Dreams, a poignant recollection of the peaceful women-led protest at Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship Amendment Act, has been chosen for the Best Long Documentary at the 15th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy. The award carries a cash prize of ₹2 lakh.
Prateek Shekhar’s Chardi Kala - An Ode to Resilience, a wide-ranging chronicle of the farmers’ protest witnessed in the country for over an year against a set of laws enacted by the Union government, won the award for the Second Best Long Documentary. The special mention in the Long Documentary category went to Divya Kharnare’s 15 Seconds a Lifetime on a youngster’s attempt to become famous on TikTok.
Gurleen Grewal’s Somewhere Near and Far, which gently excavates quotidian everyday moments to stitch together a contemplative, melancholic yet precise portrait of a family in Delhi, won the award for the Best Short Documentary, carrying a cash prize of ₹1 lakh. Siddhant Sarin’s Mum won the award for the Second Best Short Documentary. Lourdes M.Supriya’s’ What Do I Do After You and P.Vishnu Raj’s The Soil shared the special mention in the Short Documentary category.
