Don Palathara’s Indian Drama ‘Monkey Play’ Selected for Vancouver’s Inaugural Works-in-Progress Lab (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety - Sep 18, 2026

“Monkey Play” (“Kurangukali”), the latest project by Indian filmmaker Don Palathara (“1956, Central Travancore,” “Family”), has been selected for the Vancouver Film Festival’s new Business Hub Works-in-Progress program, which showcases up to eight feature-length projects in the final stages of production. The film, which Variety unveiled last year, follows Sethu and Nikita, who, in the […]

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