ALL THAT BREATHES — DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

Winner of the Best Documentary honour on the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival, this Shaunak Sen directorial has perched one other feather in its cap and soared a couple of inches nearer to an Oscars nomination.

“We’re besides ourselves with joy and relief,” mentioned Sen to The Indian Express. “Not least because this shines more light on the singularly remarkable work our characters do, but also owing to the lovely films we are in the company of. We’re genuinely thrilled with the recognition, and looking forward to the next steps in the film’s journey.”

“We’re exhilarated about India’s stunning performance at the shortlist level, four (shortlisted films) is incredible,” he added.

A narrative about two Muslim brothers in New Delhi who rescue black kites falling from a smog-choked sky, All That Breathes explores the importance of this chicken within the lives of those two former bodybuilders in opposition to the backdrop of the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots.

ELEPHANT WHISPERERS — DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

An unusually massive household — not in quantity, however within the dimension of its members — is on the centre of this narrative. Following the lives of an getting older couple of the Kattunayakan tribe in South India who grow to be mother and father to 2 orphan child elephants, this 41-minute documentary directed by Kartiki Gonsalves is a half-a-decade-long journalistic endeavour that explores a love transcending boundaries of blood, group, and species.

CHHELLO SHOW (TRANSLATION: LAST FILM SHOW) — INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

A heartwarming love letter to movies and filmmaking, this Gujarati-language characteristic directed by Pan Nalin follows the story of Samay, a nine-year-old boy in a village in Gujarat, who bribes a theatre projectionist to observe films all summer time. Smitten by the craft and deciding to pursue it as a vocation, the boy navigates a lifetime of hardship, creation, sacrifice and a selfless love of artistry. The movie premiered on the twentieth Tribeca Film Festival in 2021 and launched in India this 12 months.

NAATU NAATU (FROM RRR) — MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

This rip-roaring musical quantity from SS Rajamouli’s 2022 historic epic RRR has made its solution to the West, on the again of its surprising important and business success abroad. Naatu Naatu has been written by Chandrabose and sung by Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava, and options the movie’s protagonists, essayed by NTR Jr and Ram Charan, in an iconic dance-off in opposition to Britons, and shot in entrance of the palatial residence of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.