The official selection is made by a committee appointed by the Film Federation of India, the apex body of film producers, cutting across languages and regional cinema industries. Is the committee selecting the right films?
In the past 55 years in which India has been sending entries for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, it has been on just three occasions that the selected movies, despite some of them being critically acclaimed both in India and abroad, .
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Three films with an India connection have been selected for the 2023 edition of the Sundance Film Festival Poacher, a drama directed by Richie Mehta of Delhi Crime fame, Reema Maya's short Nocturnal Burger, and Shalini Adnani's White Ant. The boost for the Indian independent cinema circuit comes after Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: