Tanushree Ghosh

Everything is Cinema, screened at the recent International Film Festival Rotterdam, is a double bill with Don Palathara's Joyful Mystery and pays tribute to Louis Malle structurally and Jean-Luc Godard stylistically.

The romcom-buddy film, which turned 40 this year, provides a comprehensive Dilli darshan, of what the city used to look like

Two films to be screened at the 2021 New York Indian Film Festival look at two mediums of storytelling – journalism and independent filmmaking – and the roads taken towards them

As producer Guneet Monga has been honoured with France's second-highest civilian award, she and other women producers, from India, Singapore and France, reflect on the abysmal number of women in cinema.

While Farha Khatun faced criticism for her documentary Holy Rights on women qazis, a handful of Kerala theatres refused to screen Sajin Baabu's Kani Kusruti-starrer feature Biriyaani

On Women’s Day today, as National Geographic premieres a new film, Women of Honour: Destination Army, we look at three women — a young officer who’s the film’s protagonist, the seniormost woman officer in the Indian Army, and a woman who is e-coaching defence aspirants

Macdonald and Ridley Scott's second film in the crowdsourced series premiered at Sundance Film Festival this year and is available on YouTube.

Faizan Ahmad is crowd-funding to self-publish a compilation of his conversations, over five years, on Lahore’s Metrobus, to train the spotlight on Pakistani identity

The documentary feature Writing with Fire, by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, that spotlights Khabar Lahariya, India's only rural newspaper run by Dalit women, picked up special jury and audience awards in World Cinema Documentary competition.

Tailing Pond, Vidya Balan-starrer Natkhat and Shameless are ShortsTV’s three selections; also in the running are Adil Hussain-produced Saving Chintu and Karishma Dev Dube’s Bittu. The Oscars shortlist will be announced on February 9.

The India-US produced short film Lata, screening at Sundance Film Festival, spotlights class divide through how a domestic worker navigates time and space.

Siddharth Tripathy’s debut Chhattisgarhi feature A Dog and his Man, screened at the 51st International Film Festival of India recently, is a moving tale of the last beings standing in a village evacuated for coal mining.

Prithvi Konanur’s third Kannada feature, which screened at the 51st International Film Festival of Goa recently, trains the lens on how even homes aren’t a safe haven for children.

Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s debut feature, which finds a vulnerable fishing community at the centre of a tussle between climate-change impact and religious conservatism, won NETPAC Best Film award at Kolkata International Film Festival and is nominated for the Ingmar Bergman award

In the wake of a celebrity suicide last year, a pandemic that toyed with people’s sanity in lockdown, and Indian denial of mental illness, Onkar Diwadkar’s short film, screened at KIFF and IFFI, is relevant

I Am Kalam director Nila Madhab Panda extends his decade-long work around effects of climate change from documentaries and Hindi films to his first Odia feature, screened at the ongoing IFFI’s Indian Panorama section

The personal is political in Fire in the Mountains, Writing with Fire, and an Indo-US production, LATA. These are among 72 films at the festival, to be held late January

The IWEI comes two years after the Supreme Court’s landmark reading down of Section 377.

Vijay Jayapal’s spooky existentialist second film in Hindi, releasing on December 11 on the OTT platform Cinemapreneur, deep dives into psychological and folk horror.

The fourth comic in the Priya’s Shakti series, Priya’s Mask, releases today along with a short film – with voice-overs by Rosanna Arquette, Vidya Balan and Mrunal Thakur – premiering at the ongoing Global Health Film Festival in London

Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra with the Franco-Rwandan musician-writer will release online a Hindi translation of Faye’s debut Petit pays, followed by the India premiere of Éric Barbier’s filmic adaptation Small Country.

The annual exodus from Bihar to places like Mukherjee Nagar and Old Rajinder Nagar in Delhi and Rajasthan’s Kota was one of the reasons LJP chief Chirag Paswan included a promise to create similar coaching hubs in Bihar in his manifesto.

Ashmita Guha Neogi’s unsettling FTII diploma film, currently screening at the 9th Dharamshala Film Festival, is a bare-bone representation of childhood/adolescence in contemporary Indian cinema.

As Bihar goes to vote, Karishma Dev Dube’s NYU thesis film, screening at the 9th DIFF, trains the lens on a 2013 midday-meal-poisoning incident.