Kapadia is hot favourite of critics, but will 'Seed of the Sacred Fig' end her Cannes quest?

IANS | May 25, 2024 7:25 PM

New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Hours before the moment of reckoning arrives for Payal Kapadia's 'All We Imagine As Light' at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, and punters have a field day trying to predict what the 38-year-old director from Mumbai will bring back home, she can at least bask in the sunshine of praise lavished on her by some of the most revered critics.

Konstantin Bojanov, the Bulgarian director behind India's Cannes sensation

IANS | May 25, 2024 1:13 PM

Cannes, May 25 (IANS) Konstantin Bojanov, who? This is the question raging in the minds of people who woke up on Saturday to the heart-warming news that a production designer-turned-newbie actress discovered by Bojanov had become the first Indian to win a major acting prize in the 77-year history of the Cannes Film Festival.