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GFS: CACTUS PEARS

Sun 8 Nov 2026 17:00 - Mon 9 Nov 2026 18:30 Eye Cinema, H91 X4AV
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GFS: CACTUS PEARS

Sun 8 Nov 2026 17:00 - Mon 9 Nov 2026 18:30 Eye Cinema, H91 X4AV
Select tickets

GFS is delighted to welcome you the EYE CINEMA, which offers free underground as well as overground parking.

Screening times are Sunday 5pm and 8pm, Monday 6:30pm. 

Please contact us if you have any booking-related questions by emailing gfsoc4@gmail.com or via our social media platforms.

CACTUS PEARS (Sabar Bonda, 113 minutes, India, United Kingdom, Canada, 2025, Cert: Unclassified / CLUB)
In Marathi with English subtitles

Following his father’s death, 30-something Anand, a Mumbai call-centre worker, must return to his ancestral village with his mother, to observe the ten-day mourning ritual. While he struggles with his grief and also the extended family’s questions about his unmarried status, Anand reconnects with single farmer Balya, a friend from his childhood. The two men quickly form a deeper bond.

“★★★★ Here is a really impressive directorial debut from Mumbai film-maker Rohan Kanawade: tender, subtle, candid, scrupulously observed. It is a story of forbidden and unacknowledged love, or maybe semi-forbidden and semi-unacknowledged, and an emotional flowering that reveals the oppressive importance of family, status and class.” - The Guardian

“★★★★ There’s a real sweetness and gentleness about this tale, in which everybody really wants the best for everybody else, but different ways of thinking mean there’s still sufficient dramatic tension to keep it moving.” - Eye For Film

Festivals:
Sundance Film Festival 2025
SXSW London 2025
Queer Spectrum Film Festival Ireland 2025

Awards:
Winner - Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival 2025
Winner - Grand Jury Prize for Best Film, SXSW London 2025

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Location

Eye Cinema, H91 X4AV