In Rohan Parashuram Kanawade’s assured debut Cactus Pears, queerness and tradition – usually framed as opposing forces – are given space to exist symbiotically. Subtly dismantling tired tropes about queer identity, the film is a mesmeric portrayal of everyday life in remote rural India, where same-sex desire is portrayed not as an alien intrusion, but as something that’s been alive and pulsating yet fiercely shrouded underneath the surface allhellip;

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