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The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune is pleased to share that a student film produced by the Institute has been officially selected for the La Cinef programme of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, scheduled to be held from May 12 to May 23, 2026, in Cannes, France.

The selected film, ‘Shadows of The Moonless Nights’, is directed by Mehar Malhotra, a 2020 batch student of the Post Graduate Diploma in Direction and Screenplay Writing. The film follows a night factory worker grappling with exhaustion and the invisible toll of sleepless urban labour.

La Cinef is a prestigious section of the Cannes Film Festival dedicated to student films from leading film schools worldwide. Selection in this section is considered a significant international recognition for emerging filmmakers.

This marks the fifth FTII student film to be represented at La Cinef since 2017, reaffirming the Institute’s continued presence on the globally respected cinematic platform.

Source: ftiiofficial

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