Director Anurag Kashyap’s long-running tryst with the international film festival Cannes continues. His movie Kennedy becomes the only Indian film to be selected for a screening at the festival this year.
Cannes announced its official lineup for 2023 on Thursday. Kashyap’s Kennedy is one of the three films to be screened at the festival’s midnight screening section. The festival will take place between May 16-27, 2023.
KENNEDY by Anurag KASHYAP
#SéanceDeMinuit / #MidnightScreenings #Cannes2023— Festival de Cannes (@Festival_Cannes) April 13, 2023
Midnight Screenings were pioneered by the Sundance Film Festival. Cannes included the section in the early 2010s. As per Cannes, it “reserves a couple of midnight slots for interesting genre films or those with challenging content”.
Most of the details about the movie have been kept under wraps, but Kennedy, which will premiere at the festival, stars Abhilash Thapliyal, Sunny Leone and Rahul Bhatt. Bhatt also starred in Kashyap’s crime-drama Ugly, which also premiered at Cannes. The makers of the movie have not yet announced its release date.
As the news made it to the social media, film celebrities congratulated Kashyap, with ace director Sudhir Mishra tweeting, “You can’t keep Kashyap down for long. Our guy is back.”