Cannes: The focus of the Indian contingent at the 60th Cannes Film Festival is understandably on the Tous les cinemas du monde (All the Cinemas of the World) section, which will screen seven films from the world’s largest film-producing nation over two days — May 19 and 20.

The man who handpicked them, Serge Sobczynski, head of Tous les cinemas du monde, is obviously keen to see how his selection is received at the festival. He watched as many as 108 films, “57 of them at the last International Film Festival of India in Goa”, before picking eight films. “One of them had to be left out at the last minute because its producer did not want his film to be screened in a festival before its commercial release in India,” says Sobczynski.