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{{Infobox film
| name           = An Encounter with Faces
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| director       = [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]]
| cinematography = [[S.N Mishra]]
| producer       = K.K. Kapil
| distributor    = [[Films Division of India]]
| music          = 
| released       = {{Film date|1978}}
| runtime        = 21 minutes
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'''''An Encounter with Faces''''' is a 1978 [[Short subject|short]] [[documentary film]] directed by [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]] and produced by K.K. Kapil. It focuses on a group of children in an [[orphanage]]. It was nominated in 1979 for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)|Documentary Short Subject]],for outstanding visuals and cinematography.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300430/Encounter-With-Faces/details |title=NY Times: An Encounter with Faces |accessdate=2008-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624081630/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300430/Encounter-With-Faces/details |archive-date=24 June 2013 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |date=2013 |url-status=dead }}<br>- {{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/ceremonies/1979 |title=The 51st Academy Awards (1979) Nominees and Winners |accessdate=May 22, 2019|publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] (AMPAS)}}</ref>

== Awards and nominations ==
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
|-
!scope="col"| Year
!scope="col"| Award
!scope="col"| Category
!scope="col"| Recipient(s)
!scope="col"| Result
|-
![[51st Academy Awards|1979]]
|[[Academy Awards]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)|Best Documentary (Short Subject)]]
|K.K. Kapil and [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]]
|{{Nom}}
|-
!1980
|[[Tampere Film Festival]]
|'''Grand Prix'''
|Vidhu Vinod Chopra
|{{Won}}
|}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0077502|title=An Encounter with Faces}}
*{{YouTube|65aPGUp_SOY}}, posted by [[Films Division of India]]

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[[Category:1978 films]]
[[Category:Indian short documentary films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra]]
[[Category:1970s short documentary films]]


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