India's Siddharth Sinha wins Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival

Siddharth Sinha from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune won the prestigious Silver Bear award under Short film category of the ongoing 58th Berlin Film Festival (Feb 07-Feb17). He won the award for his film ‘Udedh Bun’ for its modern narration.

The short film Udedh Bun talks about the journey of a boy who left his boyhood behind in the process of growing up to be a man and the circumstances under which he comes across to reinvent himself.

Film: Udedh Bun (India), 2007 Duration: 21 min Director: Siddharth Sinha Cast: Alok Rajwade, Swati Sengupta, Jaswant Dalal, Shubhangi Damle Section: Berlin Short Film Competition

The Silver Bear

The Berlin International Film Festival since its inception in 1978 has been a platform to recognise budding talent in film making. Held annually in Berlin, Germany, it is now one of the leading film festival that attracts participants from over 120 countries across the world.

Films are awarded in the Golden and Silver Bear categories and the Silver Award has been given to a film with modern narration with an emphasis on images and sound rather than words in a harmonic sense.

Golden Bear 2008

The Romanian short feature film "A nice day to go to the beach", directed by Bogdan Mustata won the Golden Bear Award in the Berlin Film Festival.

A total of over 15,000 short films from 64 countries were got selected for both the Golden and Silver Bear award competition.