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The Arts Hour

The Arts Hour

Indian filmmaker Rohan Parashuram Kanawade

4 July 2026

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Nikki Bedi speaks to fresh new voice in Indian cinema, the director Rohan Kanawade, about his groundbreaking Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda). The first Marathi-language film to premiere at the Sundance Festival, it was also the first drama from India to win an International Grand Jury Prize. Kanawade reflects on growing up in a Mumbai slum with parents who accepted his sexuality, and how he drew on the experience of mourning his father.

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One of France’s most acclaimed directors, Francois Ozon, discusses his take on Albert Camus’ The Stranger

Musical icon Chaka Khan

Norwegian-American writer Siri Hustvedt on losing her husband, the novelist Paul Auster

And the boundary-pushing Ghanian-Australian musician Genesis Owusu

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Producer: Ciaran Bermingham