New in Theaters. Elephants in the Mist: a Queer Fantasy Tragedy Set in the Forests of Nepal
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In the wild forests of Nepal, a fantastic queer tragedy. A first feature film that made a sensation at the last Cannes Film Festival: The Jury Prize Un Certain Regard 2026.
Nepalese Abinash Bikram Shah follows a community of transgender women in an upsetting thriller that dissects the mechanisms of transphobia and exclusion.
"Elephants in the Mist," a queer and poetic thriller set in a community never before seen on the big screen. In this Nepalese forest, we hear them, we fear them, but we never see them.
First Nepali film, "Elephants in the mist" won the Jury Prize of the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival 2026.
"Elephants in the mist", awarded in Cannes and en route to the Oscars, is a beautiful rural polar. It takes place in the south of Nepal, in a small community of Kinnar, transgender women considered to be...
Awarded at the last Cannes Film Festival, "Les Éléphants dans la misme", by Nepalese Abinash Bikram Shah, released this September 23rd in France. Focused around a community of transgender women in Nepal, the Kinnars, the film was very popular with the Indian and Nepalese press.
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