Private screening of the film “Elephants in the Fog”

On Friday, September 18, 2026, at La Fémis, La Semaine du Son is organizing a private preview screening for its members of the film *Elephants in the Fog*, winner of the Best Sound Design award at Cannes 2026.

Initiated by producer and former channel director Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER, filmmaker Costa GAVRAS and Christian HUGONNET, the Best Sound Creation Award was launched as part of the prestigious “Un Certain Regard” selection in 2017, during the 70th Cannes Film Festival.

Each year, it rewards a director for thesound excellence of his or her film, “because it enhances the viewer’s artistic, semantic and narrative perception. viewer”.. Each year, the jury rewards sound creation in its broadest dimension, i.e. musical and artistic, but also related to sound design (soundscape, special effects, voice quality, spatialization, sound level, image/sound relationship).

This year, Nepalese director Abinash Bikram Shah received a unanimous award for the sound quality of his film *Elephants in the Fog*.

The jury selected this film for its strong sonic identity, its rhythm, its musicality, and the powerful emotion it conveys.

The story :

In a Nepali village nestled in the heart of a forest inhabited by wild elephants lives a Kinnar community—revered and feared alike for its powers to bless and curse. Pirati, one of the community’s mothers, dreams of running away with the man she loves.