Artist Pushpa Thing gets emotional hugging Avinash. Director Avinash Vikram Shah, who has reached Cannes with his first feature film, also becomes emotional with joy. At the same time, producer Anup Poudel also reaches to hug Avinash. The same tears of joy are visible in all the actors of the film. The audience surrounding them shouts encouragement and claps.

This is the scene seen at the Cannes premiere of 'Elephants in the Fog'. The film, which was selected for the first time from Nepal for the 'In Certain Regard' section of the world-renowned film festival Cannes and premiered on Jestha 6, has garnered praise from the audience, critics and filmmakers right after its screening.

'The premiere was a huge success. Everyone loved the film. It felt like a success,' says producer Anup Poudel, 'I was already emotional before the premiere. Finally, the film went to the theater. After all these years of hard work, it is emotional. After getting a standing ovation, I became even more emotional. I could not hold back my tears after the director cried. '

This film is now being praised everywhere. Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap has praised the film's 'ending'. 'The best final shot among the films seen at Cannes is that of Elephants in the Fog,' Anurag has expressed his opinion on the film.

Filmmaker Sabin Gyawali, who watched the premiere of the film, also feels proud to have seen such a powerful film from Nepal. 'After the premiere, I was emotionally overwhelmed, the lead actress Pushpa started crying. Then, tears of joy were visible in everyone's eyes,' said Sabin,  ' It feels proud to see such a story of a Nepali film, its presence at Cannes, in front of one's own eyes . '

Sabin also discusses the last scene of the film as the most powerful in Nepali film history till date . 'I have never seen such a scene in any Nepali film till date . The non-actor has done a very good job in the film,' he said .

On the day of the premiere, the 'Sal Dubushi' theater was full of viewers . After the 'press screening', the audience started buying tickets after hearing the buzz about this film . 'On the day of the premiere, people were lining up for tickets at the theater at 8:30 in the morning,' said Sabin. Sabin says that the strong point of this film is the way it tells the story of the transgender community through strong visual language . 

The film tells the story of a family living in a slum affected by an elephant attack, where the relationship between a mother and daughter is shown. This family represents the sexual and minority community in the film. People from this community have acted in the film.

Producer Poudel said that the performance of the ‘non-actor’ was very much liked by the Cannes audience. ‘All the actors have received praise for their performance,’ said Anup, ‘Even those who have not seen the film have heard the buzz about our film, they also found out when they talked while walking on the road. ’