Bangladeshi Kamar Ahmad Simon won Golden Conch Award at MIFF 2014
February 11th, 2014
The Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Animation and Short Films closed on the annual awards on 09 February 2014. The awards were presented by Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal.
Bangladeshi Kamar Ahmad Simon's documentary “Are You Listening!” has won the “Golden Conch” for the best documentary in 13th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), one of the oldest and prestigious film festivals in Asia. The cash prize of Rs 5, 00,000 of which Rs 3, 00,000 was for the director and Rs 2, 00,000 for producer Sara Afreen. “Are you listening!” is a 90 minute documentary that is, a set in the coastal belt of Bangladesh. The documentary shows the alerting consequences of climate change and deftly captures the fighting spirit of a community and their will to survive, which is a powerful and beautifully photographed film.
Another documentary films which took home the trophy and cash prize includes In Between: Isang Yun in North and South Korea by Maria Stodtmeier won Best Documentary Film Up to 60 minutes, Kamar Ahmad Simon’s Are You Listening for Best Documentary Film above 60 minutes, Dhvani Desai’s Chakravyuh bagged Most Popular Film Award, Vikrant Janardhan Pawar’s Black Rock won the Best Short Fiction and Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Award was taken home by Fire in the Blood directed by Dylan Mohan Gray among others. 
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