The Adelaide Film Festival (AFF) has announced the winners of this year’s Feature Fiction, Feature Documentary, Short Film and Change Awards with Indian director Jatla Siddartha’s In the Belly of a Tiger winning the Feature Fiction Award.
The Feature Fiction Award, which includes a $10,000 prize, is sponsored by Nunn Dimos Foundation. In awarding the Best Fiction prize to In the Belly of a Tiger the AFF Competition Jury also gave a special mention to cinematographer Tyson Perkins’ work on Samuel Van Grinsven’s haunting Went Up the Hill.
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In the Belly of a Tiger is a poignant allegorical critique of capitalism from India’s burgeoning arthouse movement.