India, Nov. 8 -- Manipur filmmaker Borun Thokchom's 80-minute documentary Battlefield - an exploration of the untold stories of the Second World War's Imphal battle - has been officially selected in the non-feature section of Indian Panorama while Dinesh Naorem's 102-minute feature film Oitharei (Save My Soul) has secured a spot in the feature section of the 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2025.

Battlefield - shot over ten years - is an evocative documentation of the WWII battlefields of Manipur ,featuring prominent war researcher Rajeshwor Yumnam and renowned writer Late Khuraijam Nimaicharan Singh.

It captures the enduring impact of the war on human lives and juxtaposes global commemoration of war heroes with the sile...