His next short film , '' PaPa '' , premiered at the IDSFFK 2016 International Film Festival of Kerala , where it won the Best Short Fiction Award . His filmmaking style has been compared with the avant garde filmmaking movement , as seen in '' PaPa '' , which received the Best Film Award " for its innovation in narrative gesture and wicked understanding of human behaviour . " The film later also won the Satyajit Ray Award for the Best Film at the London Indian Film Festival 2017 " for its mature storytelling which balances a realistic sense of frustration and claustrophobia , with a finely nuanced thread of subtle and deadpan humor . - Jury , LIFF ” . In praise of the film and the filmmaker , Rediff remarked " The haunting play of light through long corridors , shots that stay and expressions that hold are clearly the work of a filmmaker who knows his art . " His latest film , '' Pashi '' premiered at the Oscar Qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival in US . It was the only Indian short film selected in that competition in 2017 . It then traveled to China and recently to Italy at the Rome Independent Film Festival . '' Pashi '' was awarded Best Cinematography Award at Marietta International Film Festival in Georgia . Recently the film was showcased at a Film Festival in Chile , South America where it received two Awards and two Honorable Mentions : Best Short Film Award ( lgbt ) , Audience Choice Award ( 2nd position ) , Honorable Mention for Siddharth Chauhan for the Best Director ( Short Film ) and Honorable Mention for Chetan Kanwar for Best Young Actor ( Short Film ) . The film was showcased at Jaipur International Film Festival , India in January 2018 and then the World Music & Independent Film Festival , Washington DC , where '' Pashi '' has received nominations in five categories : Best Actor ( Chetan Kanwar ) , Best Supporting Actor ( John Negi ) , Best Director ( Siddharth Chauhan ) , Best Screenplay ( Siddharth Chauhan ) and Best Cinematography ( Siddharth Chauhan & Yashwant Kumar Sharma ) . Siddharth won the Best Director Award for ' Pashi ' at WMIFF 2018 . The film premiered in Los Angeles at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles . The festival team wrote the following review for the film : " Immersing us into a startling world of raw emotion and fierce imagination , this gripping exploration of lust and its precarious impulses reveals a bold and razor sharp emerging storyteller . " Firstpost reviewed the film and called it " An ambitious dramatic production . From its runtime to its themes and the many storytelling risks it takes , the film is edifying in more ways than one ... " whereas Indie Shorts Magazine wrote that " ‘ Pashi ’ is the naked truth of relationships , of fantasies and dreams and of life in itself and its superlative experiences that alter the journey for those who have lived it . " and called it " India 's Finest 2018 Short Film " .
Jaipur International Film Festival
Jaipur International Film Festival
Siddharth Chauhan