National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director

The National Film Award for Best First Non-Feature Film of a Director is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal).

The award was instituted in 1989, at 37th National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages.

Winners
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years: