MUMBAI: Rajan Khosa’s Gattu has won the ‘Best Film’ award at the 12th New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) that concluded on 27 May.

While Mohd. Samad won the ‘Best Young Actor’ award for essaying the role of Gattu in the film, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tannishtha Chatterjee were declared best actors for Dekh Indian Circus. Sujay Dahake won both the ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Script’ awards for the Marathi film Shala.

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Daniel Junge’s Saving Face was declared the Best Documentary while the award for the best short film went to Chinmay Dalvi’s Bombay Snow.

The festival, running from 23 to 27 May, showcased more than 50 features, documentaries and short films.