Nine Hills One Valley is a 2021 Indian Manipuri-Tangkhul bilingual film conceptualized and directed by Haobam Paban Kumar.

[8] The film centres around Ahum, a tribal from the hills who is going to Imphal city in the valley to meet his daughter.

During the course of the journey, he encounters different people and their stories, gradually exposing the cruelty of ethnic conflicts.

[9] The citation for the award reads, "A jury special mention goes to a film that aptly blurs the boundaries between fiction and documentary to embark on a journey through a landscape of many identities and conflicts.

Through the journey of its protagonist and through the language of cinema, the director gives word to the unspoken and searches for a space of reconciliation.