AMPAS member & Assamese filmmaker Rima Das, whose award-winning 'Village Rockstars 2' screened at the 13th Dharamshala International Film Festival, says since she’s not from a film school, she hasn’t watched many films.
Dharamshala International Film Festival 2024: Global award winners, local flavour, diverse stories, indigenous storytelling and a greater number of films by women filmmakers made the 13th edition of DIFF an indie film festival to reckon with.
In the male-dominated Indian film industry, a formidable wave of change is sweeping through, and it's being led by women.
The National Award winner, who's been nominated for 2023 Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Director, along with Celine Song, Liang Ming, among others, on her most challenging film to date and making independent cinema in India.
The Assamese director’s new film, which released in theatres across India on September 29, and set during the pandemic, unsentimentally zooms in on a family’s physical and emotional attempts to stay afloat.
Two films, in Hindi and Assamese, respectively, whose trailers were launched this week, deal with how external forces disrupt personal relationships.