New Delhi, May 24 -- Nepali feature film Elephants in the Fog has made history by becoming the first Nepali film to win at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section of the prestigious festival this year and bagged the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize.

Written and directed by Abinash Bikram Shah, Elephants in the Fog follows the story of a family living in a settlement affected by elephant attacks. It focuses on a mother-daughter duo, as per The Kathmandu Post.

Set in a small Nepalese village nestled deep within a forest inhabited by wild elephants, the film is about Pirati, the matriarch of a community of transgender women. "She longs for a 'normal' life with Master, a moustachioed man she loves. But ...