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{{Infobox film
| name = Maa Ooru
| director = [[B. Narsing Rao]]
| producer = B. Rama Chandra Rao
| writer = B. Narsing Rao (dialogues)
| story = B. Narsing Rao
| screenplay = B. Narsing Rao<br>[[K. N. T. Sastry]]
| starring =
| cinematography = [[Apurba Kishore Bir]]
| released = 1990
| runtime =
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Telugu language|Telugu]]
| budget =
}}
'''Maa Ooru''' ({{trans|My village}}) is a 1987 Indian Telugu-language anthropological film written and directed by [[B. Narsing Rao]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/films/story/19890615-award-winning-b.-narasinga-rao-brings-quality-to-telugu-cinema-816201-1989-06-15|title=Award-winning B. Narasinga Rao brings quality to Telugu cinema|website=India Today}}</ref> The film won the [[National Film Award for Best Anthropological/Ethnographic Film|Best Ethnographic Film]] at the [[36th National Film Awards]] "For recalling with nostalgia the life of a village community of the fifties in Telangana and does so with sensitivity and a graphic lyricism", as cited by the Jury.<ref name="36thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=https://dff.nic.in/images/Documents/81_36thNfacatalogue.pdf|title=36th National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|access-date=9 January 2012}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.iaac.us/NYIFF2016/directors-first-films.htm|title=NYIFF 2016|website=www.iaac.us}}</ref>

==International honors==
won the "Main Prize - Media Wave Award" at the Hungary International festival of visual arts.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://news.webindia123.com/news/articles/India/20081221/1134082.html |title=Narsing Rao's films regale Delhi|publisher=webindia123.com |date=21 December 2008 |access-date=2012-08-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Metro Plus |url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/03/01/stories/2005030100530300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305213636/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2005/03/01/stories/2005030100530300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2005-03-05 |title=Unsung moments - HYDB |date=2005-03-01 |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2020-01-03}}</ref> ''Maa Ooru'' was premiered at the [[Kala Ghoda Arts Festival]] - [[Mumbai]] in 1999. The ''Ekotopfilm - International Festival of Sustainable Development Films'' in 1995, [[Slovak Republic]]. The ''Brastislavia Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica'' in 1993, [[Viterbo]], Italy. The first [[Mumbai International Film Festival]] for Documentary, Short and Animation Films in 1990 where the film won the Best Cinematography award.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://www.lamakaan.com/events/498 |title=Lamakaan |publisher=Lamakaan |date=2013-05-10 |access-date=2017-09-07}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://miff.in/about/ |title=About | Mumbai International Film Festival |publisher=Miff.in |date= |access-date=2017-09-07}}</ref> The International premier at Filmfest München in 1989, Germany. The Indian panorama section of the [[International Film Festival of India|IFFI]].<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/07/stories/2003040700580400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030730183623/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/04/07/stories/2003040700580400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2003-07-30|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=2003-04-07|title=Touching tale}}</ref><ref name="rrtd.nic.in">http://rrtd.nic.in/Film%20Bulletin-Apl03.htm</ref>

==References==
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