September 08,2021 18:51:20 PM
The sound designer’s directorial debut feature is one of two Indian films, along with Ritwik Pareek’s Dug Dug, to compete in the Discovery section of the 46th Toronto International Film Festival.
Wed, Sep 08, 2021September 05,2021 06:30:27 AM
National Award-winning filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who grew up in Delhi, on his memoir, what brought about his best-known work and why one has to be the change one wants to see.
Fri, Sep 24, 2021September 01,2021 11:40:18 AM
The French-American celebrity photographer, whose grandfather once fled the Nazis, is exhibiting her Indian documentary photographs in Berlin
Wed, Sep 01, 2021August 01,2021 06:20:49 AM
Journalist and writer Coomi Kapoor on feminist Parsi women and lines of separation in the community
Sun, Aug 01, 2021July 02,2021 13:47:49 PM
The short fiction Dhulo (The Scapegoat), shot in a small Bengali village, had a big-screen showcase at the London Indian Film Festival.
Fri, Jul 02, 2021June 29,2021 00:30:52 AM
“The amendments giving powers to the Central Government to revoke a film certificate must be dropped," the letter stated.
Tue, Jun 29, 2021June 25,2021 18:14:49 PM
Filmmaker Samarth Mahajan's documentary Borderlands goes beyond the narrative of India's rivalry with its neighbours.
Fri, Jun 25, 2021June 18,2021 21:58:20 PM
Bengali film director Shiboprosad Mukherjee and actor Rituparna Sengupta recall the matriarch of the Belaseshe family, Ray's heroine and 'theatre empress', who passed away this week
Fri, Jun 18, 2021June 08,2021 18:57:09 PM
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.
Tue, Jun 08, 2021June 06,2021 06:12:29 AM
The romcom-buddy film, which turned 40 this year, provides a comprehensive Dilli darshan, of what the city used to look like
Mon, Jun 07, 2021June 03,2021 15:18:53 PM
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
Thu, Jun 03, 2021April 24,2021 17:32:00 PM
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.
Sun, Apr 25, 2021April 04,2021 06:10:10 AM
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
Sun, Apr 04, 2021March 08,2021 15:50:50 PM
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
Sat, Aug 13, 2022March 05,2021 11:36:34 AM
Macdonald and Ridley Scott's second film in the crowdsourced series premiered at Sundance Film Festival this year and is available on YouTube.
Fri, Mar 05, 2021February 25,2021 16:22:20 PM
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
Fri, Feb 26, 2021February 04,2021 15:26:10 PM
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.
Thu, Feb 04, 2021February 04,2021 15:07:57 PM
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.
Thu, Feb 04, 2021February 03,2021 17:32:18 PM
The India-US produced short film Lata, screening at Sundance Film Festival, spotlights class divide through how a domestic worker navigates time and space.
Fri, Feb 05, 2021February 02,2021 18:03:49 PM
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.
Tue, Feb 02, 2021January 27,2021 15:06:24 PM
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.
Wed, Jan 27, 2021January 23,2021 14:10:58 PM
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
Sat, Jan 23, 2021January 21,2021 19:10:24 PM
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
Fri, Jan 22, 2021January 21,2021 17:30:25 PM
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
Thu, Jan 21, 2021December 17,2020 21:12:11 PM
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
Thu, Dec 17, 2020