MUMBAI: The 12th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) has announced the nominations for various categories of awards. The festival will be held from 23 to 27 May at the Tribeca Cinemas in Lower Manhattan.

The NYIFF will screen more than 50 features, documentaries and short films in a span of five days. Among the nominees of the Best Film are Aadukalam, Chitrangada, Chittagong, Gangs of Wasseypur, Gattu and Shala.

Films vying for the Best Documentary are Big in Bollywood, Inshallah Football, Kumare, Saving Face and Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret.

Those filmmakers who have been nominated for the Best Director award are Sujay Dahake for Shala, Rituparno Ghosh for Chitrangada, Anurag Kashyap for Gangs of Wasseypur, Vetri Maaran for Aadukalam, Prashant Nair for Delhi in a Day and Bedabrata Pain for Chittagong.

The screenwriters nominated for Best Screenplay are Pooja Desai, Anvita Dutt, Rajesh Narasimhan and Ashish Patil (Mujshe Fraaandship Karoge), Avinash Deshpande (Shala), Rituparno Ghosh (Chitrangada), Vetri Maaran (Aadukalam) and Bedabrata Pain and Shonali Bose (Chittagong).