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Malayalam film ‘Victoria’ bags nomination at Shanghai Film Festival
Sivaranjini J’s debut feature becomes India’s only contender at the International Film Festival.
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Kaira Sen - Mon, 16, Jun 2025
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Official Film Poster / IMDB
Malayalam film Victoria has been nominated for the Golden Goblet Award at the 2025 Shanghai International Film Festival, making it India’s sole entry in the prestigious international competition this year.
Directed by debutant Sivaranjini J, the film is competing in the Asian New Talent section, positioning the first-time filmmaker among an elite roster of global auteurs. The Golden Goblet is the festival’s highest honor, awarded to films that demonstrate exceptional artistic merit.
Set almost entirely inside a small-town beauty parlour, Victoria centers on a young Christian woman who plans to elope with her Hindu boyfriend. When she brings a live sacrificial rooster into the parlour, the film shifts into surreal territory—interrogating themes of faith, repression, caste, and female agency with quiet intensity.
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The project was developed under the Kerala State Film Development Corporation’s Women Filmmakers Initiative, and first premiered at the 2024 International Film Festival of Kerala, where it received the FIPRESCI Award for Best Malayalam Film.
Victoria is the fifth film to be produced under this KSFDC initiative, which also backed recent titles like B32 to 44 by Shruti Sharanyam and Nishiddho by Tara Ramanujam further cementing the program’s role in reshaping the landscape of women-led cinema in Kerala.
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