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- A film by FTII students has won ‘La Cinef’ award at 77th Cannes Film Festival in France.
- The name of the film is “Sunflowers were the first ones to know”.
- This is a film by Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Pune, student Chidanand S Naik and his team.
- The film has been directed by Chidananda S Naik and shot by Suraj Thakur. It is edited by Manoj V.
- This recognition has come after four years since another FTII student film ‘CATDOG’ won the award at 73rd Cannes.
- The movie is based on a well-known Kannada folktale about an old woman who steals a rooster after which the sun does not rise.
- The Chaos She Left Behind by Nikos Kolioukos and Out the Window Through the Wall by Asya Segalovich were chosen by the jury to share second place.
- Mansi Maheshwari’s Bunnyhood took home the third prize.
- The First Prize winner receives a grant of €15,000 from the Festival de Cannes.
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