Indian filmmaker Kanu Behl directorial “Titli” has bagged the Best First Foreign Film Award conferred by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 2016 (FSCC). This is the first time an Indian film has won this award. The film, co-produced by Dibakar Banerjee Productions Pvt Ltd and Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films, features actors Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial, Shashank Arora, Lalit Behl and Shivani Raghuvanshi in the lead roles.

The FSCC awards 4 prestigious prizes each year including Best French Film, Best International Film, Best First Film and Best Short Film. It also organises the International Critics Week, which is the oldest parallel competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival.

Titli has earlier won at various international film festivals at places like Bordeaux, Hawaii, New York, Turkey and Spain.  It is a story of dysfunctional family and young boy’s struggle to escape his oppressive family. The film ‘Titli- har family, family nahi hoti’ was released across India on 30 October 2015.

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