Cactus Pears (2025)
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Director: Rohan Kanawade Run Time: 112 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2025 Language: Marathi
Starring: Bhushaan Manoj, Dhananjay Jambar, Jayshri Jagtap, Sandhya Pawase, Suraaj Suman
Country: India, United Kingdom, Canada
Language: Marathi
About the film:
Through Kanawade’s signature blend of tenderness, restraint, and emotional clarity, Cactus Pears becomes a poignant meditation on longing—how it grows, how it protects, and how, like the fruit at its center, it can be both sweet and wounding.
“Radiant… Exhilarating… a poignant approach to unspoken sorrow.”
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety
About the filmmaker:
Rohan comes from a humble background, raised in a one-room house in a Mumbai slum by a chauffeur father and homemaker mother. He is a self-made filmmaker with a background in interior design. His shorts have been screened globally. U Ushacha (U for Usha, 2019) won him the prestigious Satyajit Ray Short Film Award at London Indian Film Festival 2019.
His first feature Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears, 2025) was developed in Venice Biennale College Cinema 2022-2023 under the working title “Arms of a Man.” It was also the part of Film London PFM 2021, NFDC Marathi Script Camp 2021, Film Bazaar CPM 2022, 80th Venice Gap Financing Market 2023 and Goes To Cannes 2024.
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