Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner 'Cactus Pears' Sets U.K. and Ireland Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE)
Apr 9, 2026 2:00am PT
Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner ‘Cactus Pears’ Sets U.K. and Ireland Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE)
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Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Vikas Urs
“Cactus Pears” (Sabar Bonda), the Marathi-language drama that made history at Sundance as the first Indian fiction feature to win the World Cinema Dramatic grand jury prize, will open in U.K. and Ireland cinemas on June 19, in a release led by producers Neeraj Churi of Lotus Visual Productions and Kaushik Ray of Taran Tantra Telefilms. The film is presented by Mira Nair.
Written and directed by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, the film centers on a young man from Mumbai who travels back to his family’s village in rural Maharashtra after his father dies, bound by tradition to observe a 10-day mourning period. Amid pressure from relatives about marriage and his future, he grows close again to a friend from childhood, and the two men find their way toward an intimate connection.
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