Karan Kandhari
Karan Kandhari | |
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Kandhari at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Sister Midnight | |
| Born | |
| Nationality | British, Indian |
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| Years active | 2000s–present |
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Karan Kandhari is a British–Indian film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He is best known for his award-winning short film Hard Hat (2009) and for his feature-length directorial debut Sister Midnight (2024), which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.[1][2][3]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Bye Bye Miss Goodnight | Director, Writer | Avant-garde road movie set in Mumbai |
| 2009 | Hard Hat | Director, Writer | Short film about immigrants in London; won Audience Award at Rushes Soho Short Film Festival (2010) |
| 2012 | Flight of the Pompadour | Director | Short film |
| 2013 | Sidney | Director | Short film |
| 2013 | Out of Tune | Director | Short film |
| 2024 | Sister Midnight | Director | Feature film; premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival |
Critical response
"There is evidence of better things to come from British Asian directors, as Karan Kandhari demonstrates with Bye Bye Miss Goodnight. Offering a uniquely avant-garde snapshot of modern urban India, this visually ambitious road movie belies its modest budget to chronicle the unlikely encounter between a daydreaming Mumbai cabby and a pregnant, hitchhiking free spirit." - David Parkinson, BBC Film[4]
References and notes
- ^ http://sohoshorts.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/rushes-soho-shorts-winners-2010/ Rushes Soho Shorts Results 2010 (Retrieved 15 August 2012)
- ^ Roxborough, Scott (16 April 2024). "Cannes Directors' Fortnight Lineup Unveiled". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (12 March 2025). "Sister Midnight review – Mumbai-set comic horror finds the terror in arranged marriage". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 21 March 2025.
- ^ "Bite the Mango 2005".
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