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Mysore filmmaker Chidananda S. Naik’s film ‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know’ has been awarded the La Cinéfa First Prize at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
The film Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know was made by filmmaker Chidanand S. Nayak after a year of study at the TV wing of the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. The film is based on a Kannada folk tale about an old woman who steals chickens. The old woman’s mistakes are punished by her son, who is banned from moving around in the village.
Manasi Maheshwari, Chidanand S. Naik, Asya Selagovic, and Nikos.
India won the first and third place
While Chidanand S. won the first prize in the CineF competition, India’s Manasi Maheshwari’s animation film ‘Bunihood’ has won the third prize in this category. Born in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, Manasi studied at the National Film and Television School in UK after studying at NIFT. Manasi made the animated film Bunnyhood during her studies.
Two Hollywood movies ranked second
In the La Cinéfa category, India bagged the first and third positions, while Columbia University director S. Asya Segalovich’s film Out of the Window Through the Wall and Greece’s Aristotle University student Nikos’ film The Chaos She Left Behind were on the second position.
The winner got Rs 13.5 lakh along with La Cinéfa prize
Chidanand, winner of La Cinéfe category from Mysore, was given 15000 Euros (13 lakh 48 thousand rupees) by Cannes Film Festival, second place winners S. Asya and Nicole were given 11250 Euros (10 lakh rupees) and third place winner Manasi Maheshwari was given 7500 Euros (6 lakh 74 thousand rupees). All the films that won in the category will be screened on June 3 at Cinema du Pantheon and on June 4 at MK2 Quai de Sien.
The second Indian to win this award is Chidanand S. Naik
Before Chidanand S. Naik, who won La Cinéfe this year, India’s Ashmita Guha Neogi won this award in the year 2020. Her film CatDog, made while studying at FTII, was the winner in this category.
