Elephants in the Fog Continues UK Festival Run at Cambridge Film Festival
After BFI London, Elephants in the Fog screens at the Cambridge Film Festival on October 27 and 29 at Arts Picturehouse — a second UK festival slot for the Cann
By Nepalese Events Australia Editorial
Published: 2026-09-30T05:00:00.000000Z
Category: Movies & Entertainment
Elephants in the Fog's British journey doesn't stop in London. The Cannes-winning Nepali feature is also programmed at the Cambridge Film Festival, which runs October 22 – November 1, 2026, with confirmed screenings on October 27 at 6:00 PM and October 29 at 4:05 PM at Arts Picturehouse.
A second festival, a different audience
Cambridge's festival is the UK's longest-running regional film festival, and its programming leans toward exactly the kind of international auteur work Elephants in the Fog represents. For Nepali families in East Anglia — and for the substantial Nepali student and professional community around the university city — the Arts Picturehouse dates mean the film reaches a British audience beyond London without anyone needing to travel to the capital.
The scheduling also extends the film's UK theatrical life by almost two weeks beyond its BFI London screenings on October 17–18: London gets it first, Cambridge closes out the month.
Screening details
Festival: Cambridge Film Festival 2026 (October 22 – November 1)
Screenings: Monday, October 27 — 6:00 PM; Thursday, October 29 — 4:05 PM
Venue: Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge
Format: Nepali with English subtitles
Tickets and the full festival programme are on the Cambridge Film Festival website. Arts Picturehouse on St Andrew's Street is Cambridge's specialist cinema — a short walk from the station for anyone travelling in from London or elsewhere in East Anglia.
Festival context
Cambridge has run since 1977, making it one of the UK's oldest continuously held film festivals, and its audience is unusually engaged — a university city with a serious film culture means post-screening conversations tend to be substantive. For a film like Elephants in the Fog that benefits from audience word-of-mouth rather than marketing spend, a two-screening regional run in a picturehouse setting is exactly the format that builds a long-tail reputation. The 6 PM and 4:05 PM slots are also family-feasible times — this isn't a midnight-festival slot, it's programmed for a mainstream arthouse audience.
Why audiences keep choosing this film
Festival programmers on three continents have now converged on the same film, which is itself a verdict: Elephants in the Fog pairs a story nobody else could tell — a Kinnar-community matriarch's search for her missing daughter against a backdrop of wild-elephant territory — with the craft credentials (Cannes Official Selection, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize) that put it on critics' must-see lists. For UK audiences it's the rare Nepali title that will appear in broadsheet festival coverage, not only community channels.
The bigger picture
Two UK festival selections in the same month — plus a Cannes Jury Prize behind it and a Tasveer closing night ahead in the US — make Elephants in the Fog the most internationally screened Nepali film of 2026 by a wide margin. The film follows Pirati, a Kinnar-community matriarch searching for her missing daughter, a premise that's now been programmed on three continents. For the full journey from Cannes through Hamburg, London, Cambridge and Seattle, see our feature on Nepali cinema's European year, and follow the UK desk for any added British sessions.
If you can't make either Cambridge date, don't wait for a general release: films with this profile usually return for a UK art-house run later, but nothing is confirmed yet — the October festival window is currently the only guaranteed British screening.
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