3rd South Asian Short Film Festival (SASFF 2020)
Due to the pandemic situation (created by the novel coronavirus), the South Asian Short Film Festival was organized online from 21 September to 25 October 2020. A total of 200 films were showcased in the 3rd edition. The list of award-winning films was as follows:
SASFF 2020 Award Winning Films
Documentary Section
Satyajit Ray Golden Award for the Best Documentary: Janani’s Juliet by Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Satyajit Ray Silver Award for the 2nd Best Documentary: Palace of Colours by Prantik Narayan Basu
Satyajit Ray Bronze Award for the 3rd Best Documentary: Coral Woman by Priya Thuvassery
Mrinal Sen Golden Award for the Best Direction in Documentary: Pankaj Rishi Kumar for Janani’s Juliet
Short Fiction Section
Ritwik Ghatak Golden Award for the Best Short Fictions: The Accordion by Sandip Banerjee
Ritwik Ghatak Silver Award for the 2nd Best Short Fiction: An Irrelevant Dialogue by Moinak Guho
Ritwik Ghatak Bronze Award for the 3rd Best Short Fiction: Flying Wagon by Kunal Narula
Special Jury Mention in Short Fiction: Gulp by Vijeendra Syam
V Shantharam Golden Award for the Best Direction in Short Fiction: Ashish Pandey for Nooreh
A total of 200 films were showcased at the festival and the complete section-wise selection list was as follows:
Competition Short Fiction
CF-01. Agomonir Abogahon. By-Abhijit Roy (25M)
CF-02. Formerly. By-Abhisek Bhattacharyya and Indrashish Lahiri (18M)
CF-03. Democracy. By-Aditya Agnihotri (13M)
CF-04. Beholden. By-Akshay Gouri (30M)
CF-05. Pigments. By-Anindita Kalita (20M)
CF-06. The Little Riddle. By- Anoop Oommen (15M)
CF-07. Pedal Paths. By-Antar Mallick (04M)
CF-08. Nooreh. By-Ashish Pandey (22M)
CF-09. Neithal. By-Ashokan Moorthy (24M)
CF-10. Chaukhat, By-Bibhanshu Rai (30M)
CF-11. 3rd Law. By-Bisharad Bassnet (14M)
CF-12. A Democratic Proposal. By-Chandana Prasanna (18M)
CF-13. The Actor. By-Debesh Chatterjee (13M)
CF-14. Do I Exist-A Riddle. By-Dhruv Harsh (17M)
CF-15. Monsoon Clips. By-Diganta Dey (12M)
CF-16. Waves Interrupted. By-Dimon John (12M)
CF-17. Testimony of Silence. By-Hilusha Hewagama (15M)
CF-18. Avruska. By-Joy Kholia (01M)
CF-19. In the Field. By-Julian Coldray (16M)
CF-20. Mamatva. By-Kirti Singh (30M)
CF-21. Flying Wagon. By-Kunal Narula (15M)
CF-22. Blackhead. By-Lakshmi Marikar (21M)
CF-23. 1.4 GB. By-Manas Basu (14M)
CF-24. Season’s Greeting. By-Manish Singh (14M)
CF-25. An Irrelevant Dialogue. By- Moinak Guha (33M)
CF-26. Piklu. By-Mrinmoy Nandi (27M)
CF-27. The Unsent Letter. By-Mushfica Masud (11M)
CF-28. Furniture. By-Nazmus Sakib Himel (24M)
CF-29. Dogma. By-Omkar (10M)
CF-30. Notification. By-Patdeep Chaudhuri (25M)
CF-31. The Other Half. By-Prabal (15M)
CF-32. An Early Spring. By-Pramati Anand (38M)
CF-33. Junkiri. By-Prince (33M)
CF-34. Bridge. By-Pritha Biswas (31M)
CF-35. Khuda Hafiz. By-Ranjit Raghupathy (27M)
CF-36. Wind Through the Holes. By-Edward Roshan (07M)
CF-37. The Gift. By-Rupa Shukla Ahire (06M)
CF-38. The Storyteller. By-Sabyasachi Banerjee (30M)
CF-39. Silent Ties. By-Sai Deodhar (10M)
CF-40. Not A Known Story. By-Saikat Das (10M)
CF-41. The Accordition. By-Sandip Banerjee (20M)
CF-42. The Wallet. By-Saumitra Singh (14M)
CF-43. The Out Cast. By-Saurav Bhadra (22M)
CF-44. Shundor Chaan. By-Shankha Das Gupta (30M)
CF-45. Pamphlet. By-Shekhar Bapu (30M)
CF-46. Little Flower. By-Shila Dutta (04M)
CF-47. Aapke Aa Jane Se. By-Shiladitya Bora (18M)
CF-48. Maneater Alley. By-Soham Sannamat (06M)
CF-49. God is Good. By-Sourav Pal (20M)
CF-50. The Fence. By-Shreehari Dharman (22M)
CF-51. Thikana. By-Sreyasi Paul (14M)
CF-52. Rupatantar. By-Sujoy Pal (20M)
CF-53. Happy Ending. By-Susmit Sourav (06M)
CF-54. Miles Apart. By-Supriya Vinod (17M)
CF-55. Poet in Two Worlds. By-Swapnil Vasant, Lata Kapure (37M)
CF-56. Performer. By-Tasmiah Afrin Mou (30M)
CF-57. Miss Man. By-Tathagata Ghosh (25M)
CF-58. Weeping Angel. By-Tharindu Ramanyaka (08M)
CF-59. Gulp. By-Vijeendra Shyam (09M)
Competition Documentary
CD-01. Village of a Lesser God. By-Ananth Narayan Mahadevan (24M)
CD-02. One Point Seven. By-Andreas Van De Laar (25M)
CD-03. Magical Forest. By-Archana Chandrasekhar (34M)
CD-04. Khanshilling. By-Arpita Roy (11M)
CD-05. Housefull. By-Ayan Chakraborty (30M)
CD-06. Jharia. By-Biju Toppo (28M)
CD-07. The Incredible Buguns. By-D K Thongun
CD-08. Michael’s Day Out. By-Deepsikha Poddar (5M)
CD-09. Fayaz, Er. By-Abdul Rashid Bhatt (20M)
CD-10. An Engineered Dream. By-Hemant Gaba (49M)
CD-11. Dyed Yards. By-Jayandra Dey, Indrani Dey (8M)
CD-12. Kumudini. By-Jaya Jose Raj (23M)
CD-13. ITI. By-Nirbari Bandyopadhyay (27M)
CD-14. Janani’s Juliet. By-Pankaj Rishi Kumar (54M)
CD-15. Palace of Colours. By-Prantik Basu (27M)
CD-16. Coral Woman. By-Priya Thuvassery (53M)
CD-18. Ramdhanu, By-Sarosij Das (7M)
CD-19. A Dying Wish. By-Shubhra Dixit (14M)
CD-20. Catakah. By-Somapriya Bose (19M)
CD-21. Bibha Sengupta. By-Sreemati Mukherjee (49M)
CD-22. Dwelling in Travelling. By-Shubha Das Mollick (60M)
CD-23. The Smell of Eucalyptus across the Valley. By-Suranjoy (21M)
Panorama Short Fiction
PF-02, Abir Adhikary, Forbidden, 26 min
PF-03, Aditya Arvind Chavan, Kshay, 15min
PF-04, Akhilesh Gupta, Unquenched, 20 min
PF-05, Alok Saha, Ichchhe, 13 min
PF-06, Amit Kumar Das, Sesh Banshi, 19 min
PF-07, Amritangshu Chakravarty, The 4 Stages, 26 min
PF-08, Amyth Patkar, Black Label, 25 min
PF-09, Anish Pallyal, Rosa Lima, 18 min
PF-10, Anshul Tiwari, The Unannounced, 20 min
PF-11, Anubhav Anand, Chintu, 10 min
PF-12, Apratim De, Lost Luna, 40 min
PF-13, Arindam Barooah, Protyush-Ushering a Crack of Dawn, 12 min
PF-14, Mejda- The Ghost Hunter, Arkava Banerjee, 20 min
PF-15, Avijit Dasgupta, Samrat Sanyal, Bonsai- The Compressed, 19 min
PF-16, Bhupendra Deshmukh, Kulsoom, 28 min
PF-19, Chandrachur Mitra, Bikeler Roddur, 10 min
PF-20, Chandrajit Dey, Hole in Ozone Layer, 7 min
PF-21, Charulatha B Rangarajan, Legally Raped, 15min
PF-22, Chowdhury Asif Jahangir Arko, The Dustbin Connection, 15 min
PF-23, Danish Renzu, Gaash Light, 14 min
PF-24, Logo, Jaichandran V V, Madhu Manohar, 19 min
PF-25, Jaidev Tripathy, Damaged,6 min
PF-26, Jayakumar, Manikutty, 20 min
PF-27, Jayshree Chande, BadBoo An Olfactory Offense, 4 min
PF-28, Jishnu Krishnan, Dilapidated Well, 14 min
PF-29, Jitendra Jena, S-He, 13 min
PF-30, Joby Varghese, Unsee, 5 min
PF-31, Kanakaraj B, Ways, 11 min
PF-32, Karthikeyan K, RIP Human, 16 min
PF-33, Kingsuk Sarkhel Struggling Writer and Tied Butterfly, 19 min
PF-34, Kunal Biswas, Freude! ((n)joy!), 5 min
PF-35, Lipi Das, Dristikone – The Perspective,10 min
PF-36, Madhabee Barman & Vedatrayee Dutta, Tritiyo Basanta, 16 min
PF-37, Madhan Jaganathan, RIP, 27 min
PF-38, Malay Sarkar & Chandan Das, Drishyer Antarale, 25 min
PF-39, Manish Tiwari, Dhut, 13 min
PF-40, Manoj Naiksatam, Celebration, 30 min
PF-41, Mayurakshi Sen, Portrait, 29 min
PF-42, Md. Rezaur Rahman, The Scarce, 5 min
PF-43, Mrinmoy Sarkar, Darkness of Chaos, 15 min
PF-44, Muhammad Monirujjaman Julhash, The Elder Brother, 40 min
PF-45, Anantashayanam, Murali Raman, 3 min
PF-46, Naresh Hegde Dodmari, Parallel Lines, 27 min
PF-47, Nilay Bhowal, Droho – The Wound, 8 min
PF-49, Patit Paban Halder, Chetona, 7 min
PF-50, Pranjal Joshi, Beediwala, 21 min
PF-51, Prasad Namjoshi, Ek MR Ki Maut, 26 min
PF-52, Pratik Shah, One More Reason, 13 min
PF-53, Priyam Chanda, The Round Trip, 17 min
PF-54, Rahul Yadav, Carbon Monoxide, 18 min
PF-55, Rajeev Upadhyay, The First Step, 21 min
PF-56, Ramesh More, Zinda hoon main, 18 min
PF-57, Ramesh More, Development, 19min
PF-58, Ravi Rachi, The Teary Sword, 34 min
PF-59, Reeba George, Back then,when I started walking.., 14 min
PF-60, Reetwika Banerjee, Black Rose, 6 mins
PF-61, Rudradev Bhattacharya, Checkmate, 12min
PF-62, Runa Chowdhury, Inception, 16 min
PF-63, Sabyasachi Dey, Aparajita, 29 min
PF-64, Saheer Abbas Death Offers Life, 8 min
PF-65, Sajitha Madathil, Where to Evidekka, 8 min
PF-66, Sanat Ganu, Arabian Nights, 33 min
PF-67, Sandeep, The Inner Contravention of a Young Man, 25 min
PF-68, Sandeep Ravindranath, Diary of an Outsider, 15 min
PF-69, Baksho Bibhrat, Sankhadeep Chakraborty, 29 min
PF-70, Saurav Kumar, Autumn, 25 min
PF-71, Shammas Jamsheer, Iddah, 30 min
PF-72, Sharun Santhosh, Pahari, 12 min
PF-73, Shobhit Verma, Him, 17 min
PF-74, Shyam Sundar Majhi, Kukli, 25 min
PF-75, Somendra Prasad Chakraborty, The Morgue, 24 min
PF-76, Somu Mitra, Chor, 12 min
PF-77, Joker, Soumen Paul, 15 min
PF-78, Sounetra Chatterjee, Samir Karmakar & Kanchan Chatterjee, Gecho, 21 min
PF-79, Souradeep Datta, Rust & the Goldfish, 24 min
PF-80, Sourav Das, Sleeping Pills, 28 min
PF-81, Srinivas Bogadapati, Suicide Club, 40 min
PF-82, Subhas Ghosh, Subhasish Christche, Swapno Gachh, 21 min
PF-83, Sudath Abeysriwardana, Where’s my route, 13 min
PF-84, Sumanta Saha, Emily Calling, 10 min
PF-85, Sumitro Banerjee, Planchette, 39 min
PF-86, Sumsuddin Ahmed Shiblu, Clour of God, 12 min
PF-87, Suryakanta Gulab Adagale, Kumpan, 28 min
PF-88, Pencil, Tamali Ghosh, 14 min
PF-89, Tanbir Aurid, Antumbra, 8 min
PF-91, Tarun Wadhwa, 3rd Stanza, 40 min
PF-92, Thushara Ramanayake, Shell Shock, 15 min
PF-93, Trisha Nandi, Bhasan- The Immersion, 13 min
PF-94, Usman Mukhtar, Bench,12 min
PF-95, Venu Polsani, The Spring Well, 20 min
PF-96, Vignan Kaushik, Owe, 17 min
PF-97, Vinay kumar, P Aparadhees, 16 min
PF-98, Vinod Kulashekaran, Picasi, 26 min
PF-99, Vishwendra Singh, Hauah, 28 min
PF-100, Yogesh Ingole, Pratibimbo, 21 min
Panorama Documentary
PD-01. Light for Sight. By-Anangajit Chatterjee (12M)
PD-04. Men of God. By-Katyaayan Shreyas Aatman (10M)
PD-05. Jowar Gath. By-Laxminaryan Devda (30M)
PD-06. Woods Were Lovely Dark & Deep. By-Lingaraj Jayaprakash (17M)
PD-08. Rubina by Night. By-Miranda Morton Yap (13M)
PD-09. Alone The Combat Zone-Monjul Baruah (46M)
PD-10. The Day I Became a Woman. By-Moupia Mukherjee (35M)
PD-11. Baha-Sarul, Cusader against Deforestation. By-Mrinal Kanti Mahata (24M)
PD-12. Teesri Khwaish. By-Purandhya Sharma, Rustam Mazumdar, Shuchi Prasad (10M)
PD-14. Living Dreams. By-Ritwik Baiju Chandran (30M)
PD-16. Mangroves-Nature’s Hardy Foot Soldiers. By-Sajeed Naduthody (25M)
PD-17. Burimar Galpo. By-Susmita Choudhury (33M)
PD-18. Voices of The Sundarbans, By-Tapas Mondal (35M)