Introduced in 2013 and set up in memory of Dr Sanat Kumar Ghosh, the Short Film awards can be won by the directors of animation, documentary, fiction, experimental, or mixed genre films of 30 minutes or less. Eminent filmmakers, editors, and film critics and journalists have formed part of the jury over the years.
Longlist 2026 – Short Film
TFA is happy to announce that twenty filmmakers have been longlisted for the 2026 Toto Award for Short Film.
- Akshita Talwar (New Delhi)
- Akshita Tyagi (Saharanpur)
- Amoli Sachin Birewar (Mumbai)
- Apurv Anil Gautam (Pune)
- Aryan Sinha (Guwahati)
- Bhaashya (Ujire)
- Bhavya Karthikeyan (Bangalore)
- Bonita Rajpurohit (Vadodara)
- Damayanti Saha (Kolkata)
- Divya Kharnare (Mumbai)
- Mallika Juneja (Mumbai)
- Richa Nanda (Mumbai)
- Shashank BP (Birur)
- Shovel Qureshi (Mumbai)
- Shubham Negi (Bilaspur)
- Soham Kundu (Kolkata)
- Sumit Saikia (Guwahati)
- Thangellapally Aman (Chennai)
- Vaidaangi Sharma (Mumbai)
- Zayyina Hasan K (Malappuram)
Congratulations for making it through! You are now part of the Toto Awards 2026 Longlist for Short Film.
Watch out for the next round – the shortlist – in January 2026.
Past Winners
Neel Champaneri & Shadab Farooq (2025)
Adheep Das, Khushi Bano (2024)
Pratik Girish Bhoyar, Nikhil Vinay (2023)
Megha J Shetty, Shubham Dilip Ghatge (2022)
Megha Acharya, Ashmita Guha Neogi (2021)
Vamsi Telugu, Jai Shankar (2020)
Abhinava Bhattacharyya, Eshwarya Grover (2019)
Shreyas Dashrathe, Kunjila Mascillamani (2018)
Archana Chandrashekar, Medini Kelamane (2017)
Prantik Basu & Payal Kapadia (2016)
Yugandhara Muthukrishnan, Rohin Raveendran Nair (2015)
Kislay, Priyanka Chhabra (2014)
Anoop Sathyan, Raam Reddy (2013)