Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: Elephants in the Fog, a film by Avinash Bikram Shah, has been selected for screening at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival.
The lineup of films for the 2206 edition of the festival was announced on Thursday.
The film will be screened in the Un Certain Regard section, which was introduced in 1978. It runs in parallel with the competition for the Palme d’Or.
Shah is also the writer of successful Nepali films like Highway, Kalo Pothi: The Black Hen, and Shambhala. His short film ‘Lori’ (Melancholy of My Mother’s Lullabies) won the Special Mention Award in the short film category at the 75th Cannes Film Festival.
Elephants in the Fog centers on a community of transgender women in a Terai village in eastern Nepal where wild elephants roam. It follows Pirati, a transgender matriarch in a forbidden relationship with a drum master, whose life turns upside down when the youngest member of her group goes missing during an elephant watch.
The film has received 600,000 Norwegian kroner in funding from the Norwegian South Film Fund.
