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TIFF 2025

In Search of The Sky Wins TIFF 2025

NETPAC Award

RENU MEHTA fresh start.
The jury consists of three inter-
Toronto
national community members se-
n Search of The Sky (Vimukt), lected by TIFF and NETPAC, who
directed by Jitank Singh Gur- award the prize to the best Asian
Ijar received the NETPAC film by a first or second-time fea-
award for 2025 at the Toronto In- ture director. The 2025 NETPAC
ternational Film Festival (TIFF). jury members are Dina Iordanova,
Presented by the Network for the Helen Lee, and Keoprasith Souvan-
Promotion of Asian Pacific Cinema, navong, who is serving as Jury Chair.
the NETPAC Award recognizes films “For offering an indelible tale
specifically from the Asian and Pacif- of tolerance, desperation and faith,
ic regions. conveyed through a unique lens of
The film takes viewers to a realism and poetics, elevated by
small village in central India, where Courtesy TIFF striking performances. In Search of
an old couple struggles to care for The Sky (Vimukt) is a truly indepen-
their grown-up son, who has trouble dent achievement by Indian film-
thinking clearly. Life is hard, and the even tougher for them. But they find huge religious gathering—where maker Jitank Singh Gurjar”, said
people in the village make things hope in the Maha Kumbh Mela—a they go looking for healing and a the jury.

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