‘Kennedy’, directed by Anurag Kashyap, will be shown at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival, the festival’s organizers said on Thursday.
The film will be shown in the prestigious film gala’s Midnight Screenings segment.
The news was made at a press conference in Cannes by film distributor Iris Knobloch and Thierry Fremaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival.
The Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) announced the news on its official Twitter account.
“KENNEDY by Anurag KASHYAP #SéanceDeMinuit / #MidnightScreenings #Cannes2023,” read the caption.
Kashyap has become a fixture at the Cannes Film Festival.
His multigenerational gangster cult classic ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ (2012) had previously been presented at the 2012 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival.
‘Bombay Talkies’, an anthology film directed by Kashyap, premiered at the Special Screenings section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Kashyap’s thriller Ugly premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, garnering a standing ovation.
He followed up with the neo-noir thriller ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’, which debuted in the Director’s Fortnight section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
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