Kannada short film ‘Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know’ qualifies for Oscars 2025

Movies By South First Desk Nov 06, 2024 Read the article

The Kannada short film Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know has qualified for Oscars 2025 in the Live Action Short Film category.

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The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting announced that the film directed by a FTII student Chidananda S Naik has qualified for the Oscars 2025.

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Early this year, the film won the first prize of La Cinef at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

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Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know is based on a Kannada folk tale about an old woman who steals a rooster. As a result of her action, the sun stops rising in the village.

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One may call it a pictorial evocation of a grandmother’s bedtime folk fable with all its attendant mystery and tinge of terror to put the child to sleep.

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The Mysuru doctor-turned-filmmaker made the film at the end of his one-year course in the television wing of Pune’s Film and Television Institute of India.

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