"The Silver Hugo, ex aequo, goes to Bombay Rose, the directorial debut of Gitanjali Rao. A dreamy, lush animated film with a rich aesthetic palette, it captivated the jury with its multigenerational story of longing, hope, love, belief, and family. The film's striking hand-painted visuals alternately juxtapose Bollywood spectacle with Hindu symbolism and Islamic heroic iconography; we found its haunting soundtrack of traditional and contemporary Hindi, Persian and Urdu songs equally complex and affecting. The result is a formally and narratively ambitious tapestry that centers on star-crossed loves, yet lingers poignantly amidst multiple intersecting stories and perspectives with finely textured details that are as exquisite as the whole."
