Was it really in the Cannes Festival?

Yes, and all you had to do was google "Gangs of Wasseypur Cannes." It was in the Director's Fortnight section, not the Main Slate, but it did receive rave reviews.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/gangs-wasseypur-cannes-review-328768

An extraordinary ride through Bollywood’s spectacular, over-the-top filmmaking, Gangs of Wasseypur puts Tarantino in a corner with its cool command of cinematically-inspired and referenced violence, ironic characters and breathless pace. All of this bodes well for cross-over audiences in the West.

http://variety.com/2012/film/markets-festivals/gangs-of-wasseypur-1117947719/

“Gangs of Wasseypur” is a brilliant collage of genres, by turns pulverizing and poetic in its depiction of violence. A saga of three generations of mobsters cursed and driven by a blood feud, it’s epic in every sense, not least due to its five-hour-plus duration. Helmer Anurag Kashyap puts auds on disturbingly intimate terms with this psychopathic family and its hardscrabble North Indian mining town, while encompassing nothing less than India’s postwar history and deep-rooted problems in microcosm.

The directors' other films Ugly, Bombay Talkies, and Psycho Raman have all screened at Cannes.

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