Sonal Sehgal`s Indo-Latvian sci-fi thriller `Manny` has had quite a successful run in the Festival circuit having won several awards in the last six months. So far most of the festivals were held online. But now the world has opened up even as India reels under the second wave of Covid.

Merely a few days back, as Italy opened its cinemas to the public, the River to River Indian Film Festival of Florence chose the best films of its 20th edition to be screened at the historic La Compagnia Theatre in Florence for its reopening. Amongst the chosen films were ‘My Cave in India’ by Elio Germano and Omar Rashid, ‘Nayak’ by Satyajit Ray and ‘Manny’, directed by Latvian filmmaker Dace Puce and written and produced by Sehgal.