Dir:
Pan Nalin
Last Film Show
India's Official Entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards! Samay, a 9-year-old boy living with his family in a remote village in India discovers films for the first time and is absolutely mesmerized. Against his father’s wishes, he returns to the cinema day after day to watch more films, and even befriends the projectionist, who, in exchange for his lunch box, lets him watch movies for free. He quickly figures out that stories become light, light becomes films, and films become dreams. Samay and his wild gang of friends move heaven and earth to catch and project light to achieve a 35mm film projection. But little do they know that soon they’ll be forced to make heartbreaking choices as an era is approaching to annihilate everything they love about their 35mm dreams…
Awards & Recognition
🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes
Nominated for the Audience Award at the 20th Tribeca Festival and earned two National Film Awards in India in 2023, including Best Feature Film in Gujarati and Best Child Artist for Bhavin Rabari. The film was India’s official submission for the 2023 Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category.
"Cannily mixes the nostalgic celebration of movies like Giuseppe Tornatore’s Cinema Paradiso with the feel-good underdog trope of innumerable films best highlighted by Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire". - Screen International