Tanushree Ghosh

More than Malayalam mainstream, it is the indies — such as these three films, which won top creative prize at the 52nd Kerala State Film Awards — that are proof of what Anurag Kashyap said at the 26th IFFK about Malayalam cinema chronicling the times, unlike Hindi films

Among a crop of new and young directors meditating on death, in all its manifestations and ramifications, in their films at the Cannes Film Festival, are two classics resurrected from the dead, the freshly restored G Aravindan’s 'Thamp' (1978) and Satyajit Ray’s 'Pratidwandi' (1970)

Deepika Padukone, a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival, and the choice of her red-carpet sari was a missed opportunity to celebrate Indian handloom.

In a recent book, the filmmaker composes an ode to a friend, an actor whose life enriched the inner world of others

For the first time, the 22nd New York Indian Film Festival, which runs virtually from May 7-14, will have a Sanskrit film and an award for debut filmmakers.

Dostojee, set in rural Bengal, has won the children's award CIFEJ Prize while OUATIC, a slice of urban Bengal, was awarded the Grand Jury Award at IFFLA, Los Angeles, and the Circle Award at Filmfest DC, Washington DC

The Habitat International Film Festival returns in physical form with an eclectic selection of over 60 films from home and the world.

Christina Marouda, the Greek founder of the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, whose 20th edition starts today, on the need for global festivals to include more Indian independent films.

The documentary filmmaker will receive the prestigious 2022 Outstanding Achievement Award at Toronto’s Hot Docs Festival this month

The government has made a budgetary allocation of Rs 1,304.52 crore up to 2026 for all these activities under NFDC.

Filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh of Writing with Fire, India’s first Oscar nomination in documentary feature, on the film, the spotlight and a controversy

The musician on scoring for the Oscar-nominated Writing with Fire, being a sought-after composer for independent cinema, and how wars impact artistes

Khabar Lahariya's statement, which comes a week ahead of the 94th Academy Awards, says the film “eclipses” their work of over 20 years and captures only a part of their story — “and part stories have a way of distorting the whole sometimes”.

Bengaluru’s loss is Kerala’s gain, as Pedro, Barah by Barah, and Koli Taal are headed to film festivals in Kerala this month. With no big theatres, producers, OTTs eager to bet on them, for independent filmmakers, only festivals help them reach an audience.

After Delhi Crime, Sharma and Apoorva Bakshi unite on a documentary, Womb: Women of My Billion, to record Srishti Bakshi’s CrossBow Miles movement, a Kanyakumari to Srinagar walk, listening in to stories of gender-based violence.

Set in a changing city, Shoebox ruminates on loss and memory through a personal lens.

More than 15 independent filmmakers, from among the 30-plus selected for this year’s now-cancelled Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, have written an open letter, disappointed with MAMI’s decision to cancel physical screenings. What are their concerns?

In their letter, they made “a public appeal for MAMI to plan a set of physical screenings, and to the people of Mumbai to express their support”.

Karbala Memoirs, which screens today, is the Kolkata-based National Award-winning documentary filmmaker’s latest personal piece on his witnessing the Arba'een Walk and its takeaways.

Pawo Choyning Dorji, the India-born Bhutanese filmmaker whose directorial debut 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom' is Bhutan’s first ever Oscar nomination, on India’s role in his life, making a film against all odds and the responsibility of a filmmaker

Oscars nominations 2022: ‘Writing with Fire’ is the first all-India independent production to make it to the final nomination in this category. In December, it had made it to the Oscars shortlist — among 15 films from a pool of 138.

One who sang more than 30,000 songs in over 36 languages, Lata Mangeshkar let the warm glow of her voice reach every corner of the country.

An accessible academic book on the role of art films in documenting India after Independence

The only Indian film at the Sundance Film Festival, that's won the top prize in World Cinema Documentary Competition, pits Delhi's toxic air against two brothers who give their all to make black kites fly