CANNES: Indian animation film maker Gitanjali Rao clad in a beautiful sari was accompanied in Cannes by her mother and designer K Muralidharan.

Rao says she was pretty happy when her film Printed Rainbow got through in the Critics Week competition. "First of all it was an animation film," she says. "I was surprised yet pleasantly delighted."

Rao is keeping her fingers crossed for the moment when the winners will be announced.