Yasmin Kabir's 'A Certain Liberation' adjudged the best documentary film

Besides the award-winning film, 'My Migrant Soul', another documentary by Yasmin, was also screened at the festival.

Indian entry 'Way Back Home', portraying the physical and emotional journey of an Indian couple to their homeland in erstwhile East Bengal, bagged awards in three categories.

The best documentary/video in the national category went to Arun Chadha's 'Swayam' and Gayatri Rao's work 'Raju and I' got the best animation film/video in the same section.

Yasmin, whose films had come in critical appreciation at the festival, said documentary film-makers are struggling to arrange money for their projects in Bangladesh.

While there is no dearth of subjects, sponsorship for documentary film-making is very hard to come by, she said adding another big hurdle is the lack of exhibition outlets for such films.

Yasmin said while there are attempts to ensure that the secular voice is not heard in Bangladesh, there are also film-makers who are trying to foil these attempts.

Not only film-makers but people in other media are also trying to resist the fundamentalists in Bangladesh, she added.

In fact, Yasmin, and Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid, whose 'Terror's Children' was screened at the Mumbai festival, got the attention of the media covering the event which concluded on Monday night.