The New York ‘Indian Film Festival’ has set its 2025 winners, which includes Vipin Radhakrishnan ’s ‘Angammal,’ which won the ‘Best Film’ prize and is a set in a Tamil Nadu village. In the film, a man is struggling to accept his blouseless mother’s traditional attire, leading to complications before his in-laws visit.
Other movies to win awards‘Humans In The Loop’ is a movie about a girl named Nehma who returns to her village in Jharkhand after her divorce and begins working as a data labeller in an AI data center. This movie is directed by Aranya Sahay and won as ‘Best Debut’ film. Further, ‘New York Women in Film & Television Excellence in Directing Award’ went to Shonali Bose for the movie ‘A Fly on the Wall’ and Rima Das for ‘Village Rockstars 2.’
Best Screenplay was awarded to ‘Second Chance,’ written by Subhadra Mahaja, while ‘Best Actor’ was scooped by Nawazuddin Siddiqui for his role of Adnan Baig in the movie ‘I’m Not An Actor.’ Sharmila Tagore also won the ‘Best Actress’ for her character, Mrs. Sen in the movie ‘The Ancient.’
Following these, The ‘Best Feature Documentary’ prize was scored by ‘A Fly on the Wall,’ a documentary about final days of Chika Kapadia, given four months to live, who has chosen to end his life through physician-assisted suicide at Dignitas in Switzerland, this was directed by Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar. Adding to this prize list, ‘Best Short Documentary’ went to ‘An Arrested Moment,’ directed by Dev Benega. ‘Thursday Special’ got a ‘Best Short Narrative’ award which was directed by Varun Tandon.
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