Interview: Abinash Bikram Shah – Elephants in the Fog | 2026 Cannes Film Festival (opens in new tab)

Making his second splash in Cannes after seeing his short Lori land a Special Mention in 2022, Nepali filmmaker Abinash Bikram Shah looks towards balancing realism with spirituality in a text that is an intersection between politics, faith, gender identity, and communal survival in Elephants in the Fog. A feature debut that is anchored in the Kinnar community, the film exposes the precarity of acceptance and the fragile protections afforded to those living on society’s margins with the morall...