Mumbai — Documentary 2006

At the Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short and Animation Films, our jury awarded the International Critics' Prize to AFSPA, 1958 by Haobam Paban Kumar, an Indian documentary about the violations perpetrated by the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur in 2004.

The festival ran from February 3 to 9, 2006.
Details of the prize

Reports:

In a Nutshell. Premendra Mazumder has found pearls in the shorts, documentaries and animations presented at the Mumbai festival, an emerging continent on the independent films' world map. More

Travelling Identities. At the Mumbai festival Hubert Niogret examines the interplay between the past, the present and the future of immigration, political independence and identity. More

Riots in Manipur. Rüdiger Suchsland is impressed by Haobam Paban Kumar's "fabulous" documentary AFSPA, 1958, not only because of its subject but by its 'raw and frank' cinema verité style. More