Cannes 2024: A Round Up Of India's Stellar Outing At The Film Festival
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At Cannes this year, India returned with a historic haul of awards
At the 77th Cannes Film Festival, a crop of new films ended India's long-standing also-ran status at the annual event. Not only did 8 titles from the subcontinent play across the festival's official and parallel sections, India also returned with a historic haul of awards. Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light, won the Grand Prix. Anasuya Sengupta clinched the best actress prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar for her performance in Konstantin Bojanov's India-set drama The Shameless. And Mysore-based Chidananda S. Naik's FTII certificate film Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know... bagged the La Cinef first prize, only the second Indian film to do so.
There was much else that gave India's indie cinema a shot in the arm. Sceptics might insist that it was a flash in the pan, but longtime observers have reason to believe that what we saw in Cannes this year were genuine winds of change.
Seven takeaways for India from 2024 Cannes Film Festival:
