'Nine Hills One Valley' listed for Canada event
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, June 11 2022: Haobam Paban Kumar s second feature.

'Nine Hills One Valley' (2020) has been travelling in the international film festival circuit after it had its world premiere at the 16th edition of Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2021 held from November 27 to December 4 at Yogyakarta in Indonesia.

Now, the film will travel to Canada for the Ottawa Indian Film Festival Awards 2022 to be held from June 14 to 18 in Ottawa, the capital of Canada.

In this 5th edition of Ottawa Festival, 'Nine Hills One Valley' will be in the competition section with other 11 films.

The film was screened in the India Gold section of the 22nd Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2022 held in February, participated in the 1st International Tribal Film Festival (ITFF) 2022 held in March in Arunachal Pradesh, entered the 17th International Film Festival Thrissur (March 25 - April 7, 2022) Kerala for FIPRESCI-India prize and the competition section of the Asian select category of the 27th Kolkata International Film Festival 2022 in April in Kolkata.

Recently, the Nine Hills One Valley was selected among the top 10 Indian films of 2021 nominated for Fipresci-India GrandPrix-2021.IMDb (Internet Movie Database) also uploaded the top-10 Indian films of 2021 in its website.

"Nine Hills One Valley" evokes the futility and barbarism of ethnic conflict through the journey of a Tangkhul man travelling to Imphal city.

Haobam Paban Kumar is one of the leading independent filmmakers of India who was honoured with the title 'Legend of Indian Cinema' by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India in the 50th International film festival of India 2019 .

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