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{{Short description|International film festival in India}}
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{{Infobox Film Festival
| name = 16th Mumbai International Film Festival
| image = 16th Edition of MIFF.jpg
| caption = Official poster
| number = 729 National and 144 International from 24 countries
| date = Opening: {{Start date|2020|1|28|df=y}} <br> Closing: {{End date|2020|2|3|df=y}}
| founded = 1990
| host = [[Films Division of India]], [[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India)|Ministry of Information and Broadcasting]], Government of India
| last =
| location = Mumbai, [[Maharashtra]], India
| language = International
| website = {{URL|miff.in}}
| main = [[Mumbai International Film Festival]]
| previous = [[15th edition of MIFF|15th]]
| next = [[17th Mumbai International Film Festival|17th]]
}}

The '''16th Mumbai International Film Festival''' ([[Mumbai International Film Festival]]) was held from 28 January to 3 February 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mumbai International Film Festival|url=https://miff.in/|access-date=2020-07-03|website=miff.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=16th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF-2020) inaugurated {{!}} DD News|url=http://ddnews.gov.in/entertainment/16th-mumbai-international-film-festival-miff-2020-inaugurated|access-date=2020-07-03|website=DD News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=16th Mumbai International Film Festival witnesses a record 729 entries in National and 144 in International competition from 24 countries|url=https://orissadiary.com/16th-mumbai-international-film-festival-witnesses-a-record-729-entries-in-national-and-144-in-international-competition-from-24-countries/|access-date= 13 March 2022|website=Orissa Diary}}</ref>

The list included various kind of Documentaries, short fiction and animation films.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Arora|first=Sumit|title=16th Mumbai International Film Festival begins|url=https://currentaffairs.adda247.com/16th-mumbai-international-film-festival-begins/|access-date=2020-07-03|language=en-US}}</ref> The festival also celebrated the birth centenary of [[Satyajit Ray]] by showcasing documentaries made by him including short film ''[[Pikoo]]'' (1980), ''[[Sukumar Ray (film)|Sukumar Ray]]'' (1987) and ''[[The Inner Eye]]'' (1972). In addition the festival showcased ''Satyajit Ray, Filmmaker'' (1982), directed by [[Shyam Benegal]], and Sagnik Chatterjee’s documentary ''[[Feluda: 50 Years of Ray's Detective]]'' (2019), which focuses on Ray’s popular Feluda stories.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-international-film-festival-festival-to-celebrate-birth-centenary-of-satyajit-ray-6234167/ |title= Mumbai International Film Festival: Festival to celebrate birth centenary of Satyajit Ray|work=Indian Express|date=January 25, 2020|access-date=March 13, 2022|language=en}}</ref>

== Jury ==
The Jury panel for MIFF 2020 included:
* [[Shaji N. Karun|Shaji N Karun]], Indian film director and cinematographer
* [[Robert Cohen (playwright)|Robert Cahen]], American university professor, theatre director, playwright, and drama critic
* Hama Haruka, Indian film producer
* [[Amrit Gangar]], Indian film scholar, historian, critic, curator and writer
* Rehina Pareira, producer, writer
* [[Thomas Waugh]], Canadian critic, lecturer, author, actor and activist
* [[Apurba Kishore Bir|A. K. Bir]], Indian film cinematographer, screenwriter and director
* [[Utpal Borpujari]], Indian National Film Award winner as a film critic, and as a filmmaker
* Pencho Kunchev, Bulgarian art director, director (Animation Department)
* [[Kireet Khurana]], Indian filmmaker, storyteller, and ad-film director

== Selection ==
{{Small|Source:}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=Catalogue MIFF 2020 {{!}} Mumbai International Film Festival|url=https://miff.in/competition/catalogue-2020/|access-date=2020-07-03|website=miff.in}}</ref>

=== International Competition ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Title
!Director
!Country
!Duration
|-
! colspan="4" style="background:#FF4966"|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|-
|Daughters of Scheherazade
|Ranjini Krishnan
|[[India]]
|19min
|-
|''Karbala Katha''
|Sourav Sarangi
|India
|40min
|-
|Moti Bagh
|Nirmal Chander
|India
|59min
|-
|My Home India
|Anjali Bhushan
|India
|45min
|-
|Pariah Dog
|Jesse Alk
|[[United States|USA]]
|77min
|-
|Swimming through the Darkness
|Supriyo Sen
|India
|76min
|-
|The Outside In
|Hansa Thapliyal
|India
|26min
|-
|Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
|Barbara Paz
|[[Brazil]]
|75min
|-
|Blue Breath
|Rodrigo Areias
|[[Portugal]]
|78min
|-
|Echo from the Pukpui Skies
|Joshy Joseph
|India
|28min
|-
|Fiancees
|Julia Banter
|[[Switzerland]]
|80min
|-
|Glow Worm in a Jungle
|Ramana Dumpala
|India
|12min
|-
|Hasina: A Daughter's Tale
|Piplu Khan
|[[Bangladesh]]
|72min
|-
|Moving Sand
|Floros Floridis Jeanine, Meerapfel
|[[Germany]]
|47 min
|-
|Omarska
|Varun Sasindran
|[[France]]
|19min
|-
|Shot Awake: The Making of Changlangshu's New Logdrum
|Anungla Zoe Longkumer
|India
|26min
|-
|The Secret Life of Frogs
|Ajay Bedi & Vijay Bedi
|India
|54min
|-
|Voice of Siang
|Joor Baruah
|India
|57min
|-
|Wars Don't End
|Dheeraj Akolka
|[[Norway]]
|64min
|-
|And What is the Summer Saying?
|Payal Kapadia
|India
|20min
|-
! colspan="4" style="background:#FF4966"| [[Animated documentary|Animated Documentary]]
|-
|A Minor Genocide
|Natalia Koryncka-Gruz
|[[Poland]]
|72min
|-
! colspan="4" style="background:#EF4966"| [[Short story|Short Fiction]]
|-
|From Durban to Tomorrow
|[[Dylan Mohan Gray]]
|India
|40min
|-
|An Essay of Rain
|[[Nagraj Manjule]]
|India
|26min
|-
|Brishti
|Debashish Ghoshal
|India
|20min
|-
|In the Month of Love
|Shashank Walia
|India
|31min
|-
|Wig
|Atanu Mukherjee
|India
|26min
|-
! colspan="4" style="background:#DE4969"|[[Animation]]
|-
|Portrait of Suzanne
|Izabela Plucinska
|[[Germany]]
|15min
|-
|The Fox of the Palmgrove
|Divakar S.K.
|India
|9min
|}

=== National Competition ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Genre
!Title
!Director
!Language
!Duration
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Dwelling in Travelling''
|Subha Das Mollick
|[[English language|English]]
|69min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Ladakh Chale Rikshawala''
|Indrani Chakraborty
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|26min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Sindhustan''
|[[Sapna Bhavnani]]
|[[English language|English]], [[Hindi]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]]
|64min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''The Motherland''
|Shibu Prusty
|[[English language|English]], [[Odia language|Odia]]
|61min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''At the Altar of India's Freedom - INA Veterans of Malaysia''
|Choodie Shivaram
|[[English language|English]]
|30min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documenrary]]
|''Atasi''
|Putul Mahmood
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|52min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Before it Vanishes''
|Biju Pankaj
|[[Malayalam]]
|21min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Elephants Do Remember''
|Swati Pandey, Viplove Rai Bhatia, Manohar Singh Bisht
|[[English language|English]]
|37min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''[[Son Rise]]''
|[[Vibha Bakshi]]
|[[Hindi]], [[English language|English]]
|49min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''The 14th February & Beyond''
|Utpal Kalal
|[[Hindi]], [[English language|English]]
|58min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''The Krishna Cosmic Circle of Life:''
|Maya Chandra
|[[English language|English]]
|25min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Koothu''
|Sandhya Kumar
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|52min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''The Stork Saviours''
|[[Vijay Bedi]], Ajay Bedi
|[[English language|English]]
|26min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Waste Band''
|Supriyo Sen
|[[English language|English]]
|54min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Aru Jan Boli''
|Swadesh Kumar Pathak, Mukesh Sharma
|[[Hindi]]
|35min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''The Wounded Souls of the Rann''
|Dinesh Lakhanpal
|[[English language|English]]
|55min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''The Monks Who Won the Grammys''
|[[Aparna Sanyal]]
|[[English language|English]]
|53min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|''Idiom of Rug''
|Dip Bhuyan
|[[Hindi]]
|52min
|-
|Films on Climate Change
|''Babbling Rivers - A Gift of Human Labour, Love and Passion''
|Kailash Bhutani
|[[Hindi]]
|15min
|-
|Films on Climate Change
|''The Wetland's Wail''
|Aravind M.
|[[English language|English]]
|4min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''3 Star Split''
|Shib Ram Sharma
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|15min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Aasiya''
|Mayaram
|[[Silent film|Silent]]
|26min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Baitullah''
|Jitendra Rai
|[[Hindi]]
|6.4min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Bholi''
|Amitabh S Verma
|[[Hindi]]
|13min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Chaukhat (Door Frames)''
|Bibhanshu Rai
|[[Bhojpuri language|Bhoojpuri]]
|31min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Dreams''
|Athithya Kanagarajan
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|10min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Dying Wind In Her Hair''
|Shazia Iqbal
|[[Hindi]], [[Urdu]]
|20min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Chaar Pandrah''
|Saif Baidya
|[[Hindi]]
|22min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Friends Forever''
|Navjot Bains
|[[Hindi]]
|10min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Shevanti''
|Nilesh Kunjir
|[[Marathi language|Marathi]]
|8.3min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Adi Sonal''
|Heena D'Souza
|[[Hindi]]
|29min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Naked Wall''
|Anant Dass Sahni
|[[Hindi]]
|29min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Mayyat''
|Suyash Shinde
|[[Marathi language|Marathi]]
|26min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Posharini''
|Sreecheta Da
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|27min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Knock Knock''
|Subash Sahoo
|[[Hindi]], [[English language|English]]
|25min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Bishad Bindu''
|Samrat Chakraborty
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|23min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Grandfather''
|Umashankar Nair, Gaiti Siddiqui
|[[Nepali language|Nepalese]]
|10min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Haze''
|Nainisha Dedhia
|[[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
|19min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Lacchavva''
|Jai Shankar
|[[Kannada]]
|26min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''Plus Minus''
|Jyoti Kapur Das
|[[Hindi]]
|18min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|''A Turn''
|Kaushikkumar Kiranbhai G
|[[Marathi language|Marathi]]
|13min
|-
|[[Animation]]
|''Amrita''
|Swati Agarwal
|[[English language|English]]
|6min
|-
|[[Animation]]
|''Bully''
|Aroop Dwivedi
|[[Hindi]]
|6min
|-
|[[Animation]]
|''Koodedaan (Dustbin)''
|Danish Kelkar
|[[Silent film|Silent]]
|2.2min
|-
|[[Animation]]
|''Chakki''
|Jyotsna Puthran
|[[Silent film|Silent]]
|6min
|-
|[[Animation]]
|''Please''
|Naveen Kiran Boktapa
|[[English language|English]]
|3.6min
|-
|[[Animation]]
|''Now Your Home?''
|Prasad Pandurang Mahekar
|[[Silent film|Silent]]
|2min
|}

=== International Prism ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Genre
!Title
!Director
!Country
!Duration
|-
| colspan="5" |'''International Prism'''
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|A Dying Wish
|Shubhra Dixit
|[[India]]
|14min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|Education on the Boat - A new hope for tomorrow
|KM Taj Biul Hasan
|[[Bangladesh]]
|19min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|The Black Mother
|Pawan Bargaje
|[[India]]
|27min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|The Other Men In Blue
|Tathagat Prakash & Navagat Prakash
|[[India]]
|29min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|Wings of Desire
|Pratibha Kaur Pasricha
|[[India]]
|59min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|Warli Art: Endangered Heritage
|Hemant Verma
|[[India]]
|33min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|Saalumarada Thimmaka: The Green Crusader
|P.Rajendran
|[[India]]
|43min
|-
| colspan="5" |'''National Prism'''
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Albelo Jaipur
|Chandan Singh Shekhawa
|[[India]]
|4.4min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Bhaskar Calling
|Sanjiv Kishinchandani
|[[India]]
|24min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Camellia
|[[Sreelekha Mukherji]]
|[[India]]
|17min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|Children Of the Soil
|Ranadeep Bhattacharyya & Judhajit Bagchi
|[[India]]
|4min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Gurez
|Shruti Anindita Varma, Amitabh S Verma
|[[India]]
|8min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Look at the Sky
|Ashok Veilou
|[[India]]
|30min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Nine Plus One Is Equal To One
|Rahul Yadav
|[[India]]
|18min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Sankalp
|Mukesh Chandra
|[[India]]
|5min
|-
|[[Short fiction|Short Fiction]]
|Summer Rhapsody
|Shravan Katikaneni
|[[India]]
|20min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|Festival of Pagodas
|Madhu Eravankara
|[[India]]
|55min
|-
|[[Documentary film|Documentary]]
|The Geshema is Born
|Malati Rao
|Tibetian
|56min
|}

=== Masterclass ===
16th edition of MIFF screened masterclasses by [[Michaël Dudok de Wit]], Pencho Kunchev, [[Thomas Waugh]], [[Mazhar Kamran]], Ramesh Tekwani, Munjal Shroff, Chetan Sharma, etc.

== Awards ==

===National Competition===
'''Best Animation Film :''' '''''MIXI''''' (Jyotsna Puthran)

'''Best Short Fiction Film (up to 45mins.):''' '''''Bebaak: Dying wind in her hair''''' (Shazia Iqbal); '''''Lacchavva''''' (Jai Shankar) - ''Special Mention''

'''Best Documentary film (below 60 minutes) : ''Atasi''''' (Putul Mahmoodl); '''''Son-Rise''''' (Vibha Bakshi) - ''Special Mention''

'''Best Documentary Film (above 60 minutes) : Sindhustan ('''Sapna Bhavnani)

Best Sound Design : Pariah Dog

Best Editing Film : The Saleswoman; Fiancees

Best Cinematography: Bebaak : Dying wind in her hair

'''Best Actor''' : Ritvik Sahore (To Remember Me By)

=== International Competition ===
'''Best Animation Film : ''Portrait of Suzanne''''' (Izabela Plucinska); '''''The Fox of the Palmgrove''''' (Divakar SK)

'''Best Short Fiction Film (up to 45 mins.) : ''An Essay of Rain''''' (Nagraj Manjule)

'''Best Documentary Film of the Festival (Golden Conch) : ''Babenco: Tell Me When I Die''''' (Barbara Paz)

'''Pramod Pati Special Jury Award (For Most Innovative / Experimental Film) (For Director only) : ''And What is the Summer Saying''''' (Payal Kapadia), '''''Echo From The Pukpui Skies''''' (Joshy Joseph)

IDPA Award for Best Student Film : '''Naked Wall''' (Anant Dass Sahni)

Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Award for Best Debut Film of a Director (Govt of Maharashtra) : '''Grandfather''' (Umashankar Nair)

Special Award for Best Short film on Water conservatio & Climate Change (up to 15 mins.)(For Indian filmmakers only) : '''The Wetland's Wail''' (Aravind M)

'''Lifetime Achievement Award'''

* Dr. V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award: [[S. Krishnaswamy]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/documentary-maker-gets-shantaram-award/article30707083.ece |title= Documentary maker gets Shantaram Award|work=The Hindu|date=February 1, 2020|access-date=March 13, 2022|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Official website|https://miff.in/}}

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