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Cannes 2024: India wins first prize in La Cinef category
Updated On: 24 May, 2024 08:30 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Cannes 2024: In a moment of glory for India, FTII student Chidananda Naik and his team won first prize for `Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know`
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Winners of La Cinef at Cannes
It has been a good year for Indian films at the Cannes Film Festival that is currently underway. Before the festival comes to a close on May 25, India has already bagged its first win under the La Cinef category. Chidananda S Naik`s `Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know` won the first prize of La Cinef for best short on Thursday. Chidananda is a student of FTII, Pune and the film was made as part of the college project. This prize is India`s second in five years. Ashmita Guha Neogi, also from FTII, won the award for her film CatDog in 2020.
`Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know` is a Kannada short film based on a Kannada folk tale about an old woman who steals a rooster, plunging her village into perpetual darkness. Naik made the film at the end of his one-year course for the television wing of the Film and Television Institute of India. The film was selected out of 18 other titles and was premiered on Tuesday at the festival. The category was judged by a five-member jury chaired by Belgian actress Lubna Azabal.
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