Angh, a debut film set in Nagaland and spoken in the Konyak tribal language, has won the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. Its success matters because it brings a rarely represented community and culture to international cinema, while creating an unusual route towards consideration for the 2027 Oscars.

Directed by Theja Rio, the film follows an ageing Konyak village chief and his son in the early 1960s, as Christianity and wider social change challenge ancestral traditions. Most cast members were first-time actors, and the story explores how the past and present coexisted during Nagaland’s transition to statehood in 1963, when cultural practices were being lost or preserved only in fragments.