People, Positions and Obituaries · 22 September 2026

Nagaland Film Angh Wins Platform Award at Toronto International Film Festival 2026

Exam-focused facts from the 22 September 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

  • Theja Rio's debut feature film 'Angh', set in 1960s Nagaland, won the Platform Competition at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2026 on September 20, making it automatically eligible for the International Feature Film category at the 2027 Academy Awards.
  • The film was the only Indian entry selected for TIFF's Platform Competition this year and was developed by Rio from his 2021 short film of the same name.
  • Shot on 16mm, 'Angh' features an Indigenous Naga cast alongside BAFTA-winning actor Douglas Henshall and is produced by Nancy Nisa Beso and Theja Rio, with Jungle Book Studio handling its distribution rights.
  • The 31-year-old director Rio stated that the film centres on an ageing Konyak village chief and his son holding on to their ancestral faith amid cultural change.

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