Park City, US: It happened for Writing with Fire in 2021 when it won the Audience and Special Jury award as it did for All That Breathes last year when it won the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the Sundance festival. Both Indian documentaries went on to be nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards the following year. This year, when the festival returned for in-person screenings, panels, parties, and workshops after a two-year pandemic gap, Against The Tide hit a Sundance hat trick for India.
...Sundance festival catapulting Indian documentaries to the Oscars
Audiences this year were treated to a bevy of solid fictional cinema from South Asia across genres of feature films