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‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know’ by Chidananda S Naik Receives Cannes’ La Cinef Award for Best Short


‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know…’ wins Cannes’ La Cinef award for best short.

“Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know…” from Chidananda S Naik, a student from FTII, Pune, India, has received La Cinef Award for best short at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Jurors Lubna Azabal, who was the president, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Claudine Nougaret, Paolo Moretti and Vladimir Perišić, also decided to award joint second prize to “The Chaos She Left Behind” by Nikos Kolioukos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Greece) and “Out the Window Through the Wall” by Asya Segalovich (Columbia University – U.S). “Us and Them” (“Mauvais Coton”) by Nicolas Dumaret (La Fémis – France), “Terminal” by East Elliott (NYU – U.S.) and Gabriel Esdras’ “Elevation”(Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico) were also shown.

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