'' Firaaq '' won top honours at the Asian Festival of First Films 2008 in Singapore , where it won the awards for " Best Film " , " Screenplay / Script " , and " Foreign Correspondents Assn . Purple Orchid Award for Best Film " . The film has won awards at other international festivals , including the Special Prize award at the International Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece , the Special Jury Award at the International Film Festival of Kerala , and the Best Editor award for Sreekar Prasad at the Dubai International Film Festival . It won an award at the Kara Film Festival in Pakistan . Gautam Sen for " its perfect use of props and choice of colours to enhance the ambience of a post-riots " won National Film Award for Best Art Direction . A. Sreekar Prasad also won a National Film Award for " aesthetically weaving together unrelated sequences to heighten the dramatic impact " in the Best Editing category at the 56th National Film Awards
International Film Festival of Kerala
International Film Festival of Kerala
Firaaq