National Film Archives of India

NFDC merger: In unified National Film Corporation, a theatre of the absurd

January 05, 2023 10:24 am

The NFDC will be producing feature and non-feature films and the NFDC itself will be deciding whether its own films or others will win national awards. The DFF is non-existent and the specialists there have been displaced.

A new documentary, Lakir Ke Iss Taraf, sheds light on the Sardar Sarovar Project

July 07, 2019 8:12 am

The 85-minute documentary enables viewers to understand the situation through the lens of the disadvantaged villagers, who were compelled to leave their ancestral property and witness the submergence of their homes, land and cattle.

Over 31,000 film reels 'lost or destroyed' at National Films Archives of India: CAG report

March 18, 2019 6:21 pm

One of the purposes of the National Films Archives of India or NFAI is to trace, acquire and preserve for the use of posterity, the heritage of national cinema and representative collection of world cinema.

Subhash Ghai to give negatives of 23 films to NFAI

May 31, 2016 2:41 am

Subhash Ghai has given negatives of his 24 films to National Film Archives of India (NFAI).

She shifts heavy loads, her story moves audience

February 04, 2015 3:31 am

People raise funds through screening of Babai, a documentary film on the octogenarian porter.

In reel time

September 05, 2014 12:28 am

Preserving rare movies is vital. But a film also needs a viewer.

The Celluloid Man

January 07, 2014 3:42 pm

Celluloid, a Malayalam film to be screened at Pune International Film Festival, looks at the life of J C Daniel, who is known as the father of Malayalam cinema.

The Celluloid Man

January 02, 2014 3:37 am

Celluloid,a Malayalam film to be screened at the Pune International Film Festival.

A Silent Jibe

November 14, 2013 2:48 am

The Art of Appreciation

September 23, 2013 1:19 am

Most of us look at films as a vehicle of entertainment at best,or as a form of escapism at worst.