Cactus Pears

Name: Cactus Pears
Genre: Drama
Released: November 21, 2025
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 85

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: November 21, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship.

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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RogerEbert.com Robert Daniels

Nov 21, 2025

There are few gentler films you’ll find this year than Rohan Kanawade’s “Cactus Pears.” A touching queer romance whose subtle rhythms pull us into its tender embrace. Read full review

Siddhant Adlakha

Nov 4, 2025

It eventually takes on radiant form, with emotional complexities born out of characters walking around the truth, if only because euphemisms are the only language they have. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Nov 20, 2025

While the film centers on the comfort Anand finds with Balya and vice versa, it is also an elegantly reserved study of Anand’s grief, finding a rhythm in its scenes of ritual that allows us to ache alongside. Read full review

Next Best Picture Josh Parham

Nov 3, 2025

While it can be subjected to tedium, the engaging aura and captivating performances do more than enough to assemble a heartfelt analysis of love, bereavement, and finding one’s inner truth. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Nov 4, 2025

Cactus Pears is a subdued, sensitive study of bereavement and the quietly radical act of being queer in a rural, lower-class Indian community. Read full review

Charles Lyons-Burt

Nov 17, 2025

The film is at its best when it fashions itself as a kind of ouroboros where the future and the past, death and new love, circle back on one another. Read full review

IONCINEMA.com Nicholas Bell

Nov 3, 2025

In essence, Cactus Pears is about taking the time to search for meaningful fulfillment, which means not holding your discoveries hostage to a future no one can predict. Read full review

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