It is unfortunate — and telling — that India does not have a single film at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Yet, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat's film Parwareshgah, The Orphanage, has been selected in the Directors' Fortnight section. The fact that she is a filmmaker from tiny, war-torn, neighbouring Afghanistan — a woman from an Islamic nation — to make it to Cannes, is surely something to celebrate. So, though no Indian film has been selected, Bollywood has made a backdoor entry into the festival, as one of Sadat's protagonists, 15-year-old Qodrat, sells Bollywood movie tickets in black in Kabul. He is a big Bollywood fan, and likes to daydream himself into scenes from his favourite movies. In fact, the film is produced by another woman, Katja Adomeit, as a Danish-Afghan-French co-production.