The Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra- Ileana D'Cruz-starrer Barfi! recently won the Grand Jury Award for Best Film at this year’s (2013) Okinawa International Film Festival, Japan. The film, directed by Anurag Basu was featured in the competition section along with last year's most acclaimed critical successes from across the world including <em>Beasts of the Southern Wild</em> (USA) that had received four Academy Awards nominations and has already won three awards at Cannes 2012.

The curtains to the 14th Mumbai Film Festival was wrung down with the presentation of awards at a glittering ceremony organised by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI). In the newly introduced competition section for Indian feature films ‘India Gold’, director Ashim Ahluwalia's Miss Lovely was adjudged as the best film. The film also won the Reliance Media Works’ CreaTech (Creativity & Technology) award.