A moment of pride for India has arrived on the 77th Cannes Film Festival as Chidananda S Naik's Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know received the first prize of La Cinef. The Mysuru physician-grew to become-filmmaker made the film at the give up of his one-year path within the tv wing of Pune's Film and Television Institute of India. The movie is based totally on a Kannada people tale about an vintage lady who steals a poultry. As a end result of her action, the son stops rising in the village. The 1/3 prize of the La Cinef competition on Thursday went to India-born Mansi Maheshwari's animation movie Bunnyhood.
Speaking to Variety, Naik said, "We had only four days. I became basically instructed no longer to make this movie. It's based on folklore from Karnataka [in India]. These are the stories we grew up with, so I changed into carrying this idea seeing that my adolescence.

For the twenty seventh version, La Cinef selected 18 shorts, 14 live-motion and 4 animated shorts from 2,263 alternatives from movie faculties all around the world. Cannes Film Festival awards a 15000 Euro provide for the primary prize winner, eleven,250 euros for 2nd prize and 7,500 euros for the 0.33 prize. The offered movies could be screened on the Cinema du Pantheon on June 3 and at the MK2 Quai de Seine on June four.The 2d prize turned into shared via Out of the Widow Through the Wall, directed by way of Columbia University's Asya Segalovich, and The Chaos She Left Behind, made through Nikos Kolioukos of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

For the unversed, the first prize for Naik is India's second in five years. In 2020, Ashmita Guha Neogi, also from FTII, gained the award for her movie CatDog.