Kanal (, Sewer) is a 1956 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was the first film made about the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, telling the story of a company of Home Army resistance fighters escaping the Nazi onslaught through the city's sewers. Kanal is the second film of Wajda's War Trilogy, preceded by A Generation and followed by Ashes and Diamonds.

M. Padmakumar is an Indian film director in Malayalam cinema. He worked as assistant director to a number of leading directors and later became an independent director. He is known for the film Vaasthavam for which the lead actor Prithviraj won a Kerela State Film Award for Best Actor in 2006.