Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know, an award-winning Kannada short film by Film and Television Institute of India students, has qualified for the 2025 Oscars in the live action short film category.
Chidananda S Naik's Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know... won the first prize and Mansi Maheshwari's animation film Bunnyhood won the third prize in the La Cinef competition in Cannes.
Never before in history have Cannes and its sidebars found space for eight Indian, or India-themed, films.
'Thank you to the Cannes Film Festival for having our film here. Please don't wait 30 years to have another Indian film.'
Four Indian films have made it to the official selection at Cannes Film Festival.
'Hope is about being more accepting of each other, the kind of solidarity and friendship that even our families may not be able to give.'
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