Cannes: FTII Student Film Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know Wins Big

The Indian film Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know has been crowned the winner of the La Cinef Award for Best Short Film at the ongoing 77th edition of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know is a student film, directed by Chidananda S Naik, who studied at FTII, Pune.

The short film is based on a Kannada folk tale about an old woman who steals a rooster, and this pushes her village into perpetual darkness.

Taking to X, FTII wrote: "FTII brings big honour to India. Our Student film 'Sunflowers were the first ones to know' is the winner of La Cinef Award at the 77th Cannes Film Festival Student director Chidananda S Naik received this prestigious award at Cannes on May 23."