From TikTok to Cannes: How ‘Elephants in the Fog’ Made Nepal’s Historic Un Sure Regard Breakthrough

Throughout Nepal’s pandemic lockdowns, Abinash Bikram Shah discovered himself deep in a TikTok rabbit gap, watching movies posted by Kinnars – members of Nepal’s historic third-gender group – dancing, joking, performing with unselfconscious pleasure. The remark sections beneath these movies have been regularly vile. The Kinnars saved posting. “That really struck me,” Shah tells Selection. […]