A debut feature film from Nagaland (a mountainous state of fewer than two million people on India's remote northeastern frontier) has won the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the most prestigious juried awards at the event. Shot on 16mm film in the Konyak tribal language and featuring a largely first-time cast, 'Angh' is set in the early 1960s and follows an ageing hereditary village chief and his son as Christianity and modernity reshape their world. Under new Academy Awards rules, the Toronto win grants the film a path to consideration in the International Feature Film category at the 2027 Oscars — a remarkable prospect for a Konyak-language production that director Theja Rio describes as part of a broader effort to reverse the outsider gaze that has historically defined how the Konyak people are portrayed on screen.