# IFFI Best Film Award

The IFFI Best Film Award (officially known as the Golden Peacock for the Best Feature Film) is the main prize of the International Film Festival of India presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with the Golden Peacock a representation of the Peacock, India’s national bird, with a permanent motto of the festival Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (The whole world is a family). The award is announced for films produced in a year across the world. The award was instituted in 1965 from the 3rd IFFI competitive edition.

## List of recipients

The award carries a cash prize of ₹40 lakh (US$48,000) shared equally between the director and producer. The director will receive the Golden Peacock and a certificate in addition to the cash prize. The producer will receive a certificate in addition to the cash.
| Year | Film | Original Title | Director | Country |
| 1965 | Gamperaliya | | Lester James Peries | Sri Lanka |
| 1969 | The Damned | | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
| 1974 | Dreaming Youth | | János Rózsás | Hungary |
| 1977 | Brother and Sister | Ani Imōto | Tadashi Imai | Japan |
| 1979 | Hungarian Rhapsody | | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary |
| 1981 | The Unknown Soldier’s Patent Leather Shoes | | Rangel Valchanov | Bulgaria |
| 1981 | Aakrosh | | Govind Nihalani | India |
| 1983 | Not Awarded | Not Awarded | Not Awarded | Not Awarded |
| 1985 | The Bostonians | | James Ivory | United Kingdom |
| 1985 | Ruthless Romance | | Eldar Ryazanov | Russia |
| 1987 | Farewell Green Summer | Proshal Zelen Leta | Elyer Ishmukhamedov | Russia |
| 1996 | Blush | | Li Shaohong | China |
| 1998 | The King of Masks | | Wu Tianming | China |
| 2000 | Karunam | Karunam | Jayaraj | India |
| 2000 | Railroad Man | Poppoya | Yasuo Furuhata | Japan |
| 2002 | Letters to Elza | | Igor Maslennikov | Russia |
| 2003 | At Five in the Afternoon | Panj é asr | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran / France |
| 2004 | The Beautiful City | Shah-re ziba | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| 2005 | Iron Island | Jazireh ahani | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran |
| 2006 | The Old Barber | | Hasi Chaolu | China |
| 2007 | The Wall | | Lin Chih Ju | Taiwan |
| 2008 | Tulpan | | Sergei Dvortsevoy | Kazakhstan / Russia |
| 2009 | Cannot Live Without You | | Leon Dai | Taiwan |
| 2010 | Moner Manush | | Gautam Ghose | India |
| 2011 | Porfirio | | Alejandro Landes | Colombia / Argentina |
| 2012 | Anhe Ghore Da Daan | | Gurvinder Singh | India |
| 2013 | Beatriz's War | A Guerra da Beatriz | Luigi Acquisto / Bety Reis | Timor-Leste |
| 2014 | Leviathan | Leviafan | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia |
| 2015 | Embrace of the Serpent | El abrazo de la serpiente | Ciro Guerra | Colombia |
| 2016 | Daughter | Dokhtar | Reza Mirkarimi | Iran |
| 2017 | BPM (Beats per Minute) | | Robin Campillo | France |
| 2018 | Donbass | | Sergei Loznitsa | Ukraine |
| 2019 | Particles | Les particules | Blaise Harrison | France / Switzerland |
| 2020 | Into the Darkness | De forbandede år | Anders Refn | Denmark |
| 2021 | Ring Wandering | リング・ワンダリング | Masakazu Kaneko | Japan |
| 2022 | I Have Electric Dreams | Tengo sueños eléctricos | Valentina Maurel | Spain |
| 2023 | Endless Borders | | Abbas Amini | Iran |
| 2024 | Toxic | Akiplėša | Saulė Bliuvaitė | Lithuania |

## Discontinued awards
### Silver Peacock Award winners (Best Feature Film)

| Edition | Film | Director | Country |
| 3rd | Nirjan Saikate | Tapan Sinha | India |
| 4th | Man and the Crow (Short Film) | | Sri Lanka |
| 29th | Paper Airplanes | Farhad Mehhranfar | Iran |
| 45th | Ek Hazarachi Note | Shrihari Sathe | India |
| Edition | Film | Country |
| 3rd | Cyclone | Cuba |
| 4th | Taking off at 1800 Hours | Cuba |
| 5th | Automatic | Czechoslovakia |
| 6th | After the Silence | India |
| 7th | An Encounter with Faces Olympic Games | India Poland |
| 8th | A Period of Transition | Denmark |
| 9th | Not Awarded | Not Awarded |
| 10th | Narcissus | Canada |
| 11th | Not Awarded | Not Awarded |