The 79th edition of the Cannes Film festival at the French Rivera last week was characterised by the absence of major Hollywood names and studio movies. The festival received entries for 2,541 feature films from across the world, including Russia, Spain, France, Germany, Japan and Korea. The films tackle themes as broad as French Nazi resistance, elderly care, displacement, alcoholism, writer’s block, and sanguine meditation on life with humanoid robots.
Indian filmmaker and producer Shivendra Singh Dungarpur (2L), Indian film editor Bina Paul (C) and Indian actor Joy Mathew (2R) pose as they arrive for the screening of the film "Amma Ariyan"
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India had to contend without a significant line-up at the festival except for the restored Malayalam classic Amma Ariyan by John Abraham in the classics section and the short film Shadows of the Moonless Nights by Mehar Malhotra in the competition section. Amma Ariyan is painstakingly restored by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Film Heritage Foundation and had its editor Bina Paul and lead Joy Mathew at its screening.
Prayrak Mehta as Rajan in Shadows of the Moonless Nights
