IFFI ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal
International honor for contributions to World cinema
Awarded for"Outstanding film which promotes peace and inter-cultural dialogue"
Sponsored byInternational Film Festival of India
First awarded2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Last awarded2023
Most recent winnerDrift
Highlights
Total awarded10
First winnerCinemawala

The IFFI ICFT UNSESCO Gandhi Medal is an international honor instituted since the 46th International Film Festival of India.[1][2] The annual award is presented to an outstanding film which promotes peace and inter-cultural dialogue.[3][4][5]

History

In the year 1994, UNESCO issued a commemorative medal, marking the 125th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.[6] Subsequently, since 2015, ICFT, the UNESCO international advisory body on all matters concerned with film, television and news media, headquartered in Paris France, in collaboration with International Film Festival of India, honors the commemorative Fellini Award to an outstanding film that best reflects Mahatma Gandhi's ideals of peace, tolerance and non-violence.[7][6]

Medal Winners

Year Film Original Title Director Country
2015 Cinemawala Kaushik Ganguly  India
2016 Cold of Kalandar Mustafa Kara  Turkey
2017 Kshitij A Horizon Manouj Kadaamh  India
2018 Walking With the Wind Praveen Morchhale  India
2019 Rwanda
72 Hoorain (Special Mention)		 Riccardo Salvetti
Sanjay Puran Singh		  Italy
 India
2020 200 Meters Ameen Nayfeh  Palestine
2021 Lingui, The Sacred Bonds Lingui, les liens sacrés Mahamat-Saleh Haroun  Chad
 France
 Belgium
 Germany
2022 Nargesi Payam Eskandar  Iran
2023 Drift Anthony Chen  United Kingdom
 France
 Greece

References

  1. ^ "Kaushik wins Unesco Fellini award at Iffi - Times of India". The Times of India. December 2015.
  2. ^ "Indian Panorama Selections for IFFI Goa 2016". 29 October 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  3. ^ "8 films vie for Unesco Gandhi Medal Prize | Goa News - Times of India". The Times of India. 28 November 2016.
  4. ^ "iffi 2016 Archive - IFFI Goa". IFFI Goa. Archived from the original on 2020-09-18. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
  5. ^ "IFFI Goa 2016 International Competition Selections". 1 November 2016. Archived from the original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Gandhi Medal 2022".
  7. ^ ""Lingui, the Sacred Bonds" wins ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal at IFFI 52".

External links

UNESCO Gandhi Medal for Best Film on peace and inter-cultural dialogue
International Film Festival of India
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