Kannada Film Thithi Wins Top Award In Shanghai Film Festival
by The Daily Eye Team June 21 2016, 9:57 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 26 secsKannada film "Thithi" on Saturday won Asia New Talent Awards for best film and best script writer during the on-going 19th Shanghai International Film Festival in China. Thithi is a light-hearted story about three generations of men reacting to the death of the family's 101-year-old patriarch. The film's cast were non-professional actors from Indian villages, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Best director went to Chen Yujie from China's Taiwan for the film "Lost Daughter".
Thai movie "The Island Funeral" won best cinematographer.