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Women Lead Indian Summer at Cannes
2024 is a landmark year for India at the Cannes Film Festival with nine films from the country across its various strands.
“I would focus on the fact that they are female voices in terms of the vision and the narrative, and also, that these are auteur films where the directors are also the writers — it’s entirely their creation in that sense, which is quite amazing,” said Shahana Goswami, who plays the titular Santosh. Also bowing in Un Certain Regard is Bulgarian-American filmmaker Konstantin Bojanov’s “The Shameless,” where protagonist Renuka escapes from a Delhi brothel after killing a policeman, seeks refuge in a community of sex workers in a small town in northern India and develops a forbidden romance with Devika, a young girl condemned to a life of prostitution. The cherry on the cake is Los Angeles-based org Women in Film announcing at Cannes the formation of new chapter, WIF: India, which will be led by Oscar-winning producer Guneet Monga Kapoor.
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