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Made In India: The World’s Biggest Film Industry Hasn’t Had A Film In The Cannes Competition Since 1994 … Until Now
India, the world's biggest film industry, is about to break its 30-year hiatus at Cannes with Payal Kapadia’s ambitious All We Imagine As Light.
Mounted shortly after the conclusion of the war, the first “real” Cannes Film Festival featured competition entries from Billy Wilder ( The Lost Weekend), Roberto Rossellini ( Open City), and David Lean ( Brief Encounter). Developed at Sundance’s screenwriting and directing labs, Santosh follows a recently widowed woman, played by Shahana Goswami ( Zwigato, A Suitable Boy), who inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in Northern India. It was a photograph taken at one of the nationwide protests following the notorious case of 2012, in which a 22-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped and fatally wounded on a public bus (the anonymous woman was initially known as ‘Nirbhaya’ — a Hindi word meaning ‘fearless’ — since Indian law prohibited the naming of rape victims).
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