India at Cannes 2024
Sister Midnight (pictured above)
Karan Kandhari’s British production will be premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Radhika Apte stars as a newly married woman in a Mumbai slum. Circumstances make her set out for revenge in what the makers promise is “a fantastical punk comedy, a feminist revenge film, and a revamped vampire movie rolled into one”.
Santosh
Sandhya Suri’s feature film, premiering in the Un Certain Regard section, follows a widowed woman (Shahana Goswami) who gets her husband’s job of being a police constable in rural north India. She gets drawn into the investigation of a rape and murder of a low-caste girl by a charismatic, feminist inspector.
Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know
Film and Television Institute of India student Chidanand Naik’s short film about an elderly woman stealing a village rooster and her family being exiled in return as per prophecy competes in the La Cinef section, which highlights entries from film schools.
In Retreat
This 74-minute film, set in Ladakh, from director Maisam Ali, filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) batchmate, will premiere in the Cannes sidebar programme ACID (Association for the Diffusion of Independent Cinema). Harish Khanna stars as an urban nomad who returns to his hometown in the mountains. His reconciliation with his past is underscored by acclaimed Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s works.
All We Imagine as Light
Set in Mumbai, this drama by Kapadia, stars Kani Kusruti and Divya Prabha. It follows her film A Night of Knowing Nothing, which won the Best Documentary award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It will be competing for the coveted Palme D’Or against entries by world cinema heavyweights such as Francis Ford Coppola, Jia Zhangke, David Cronenberg and Yorgos Lanthimos.
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