On Wednesday, our wait for the golden statuette for Best International Feature Film was extended by a year as Malayalam film Jallikattu, India’s official entry to the 93rd Academy Awards, failed to make the cut. However, there was much to cheer about as Karishma Dev Dube’s Bittu earned a spot in the shortlist of the Short Film in Live Action category. The Student Oscar-winning film competed against 174 shorts across the globe, including Vidya Balan’s Natkhat and Sayani Gupta’s Shameless, to emerge among the top 10 chosen stories.  

A still from Jallikattu