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Ethiopia’s Kokob Gebrehaweria Tesfay, a SRFTI Kolkata student made ‘A Doll Made Up of Clay’ featuring Nigerian Ibrahim Ahmed, who’d come to Kolkata to play seven-a-side football. The short film was selected at La Cinef competition of 78th Cannes Film Festival. Those behind the film talk about its making and the racism Africans face in India.
In an exclusive interview, multi-hyphenate filmmaker and standup Varun Grover and lyricist-singer turned actor Swanand Kirkire talk about their short film 'Kiss', which released on Mubi this month, how creative control rests with directors more than writers, and the crisis in Bollywood.
Cinévesture International Film Festival, Chandigarh: Vikramaditya Motwane on a good story being the best risk mitigation, his stuck documentary Indi(r)a's Emergency, Black Warrant success and why showrunner & multiple-producer models work.
Cinevesture International Film Festival 2025: Aditya Watts's debut Haryanvi feature film 'Kaansya' would not exist if Vishal Bhardwaj's 'Omkara' and 'Maqbool' didn't exist.
In his balmy documentary on the pathbreaking Hindi poet-writer Vinod Kumar Shukla, that is streaming on MUBI, independent filmmaker Achal Mishra has frozen, for posterity, the cultural fragrance and the in-between moments in the flowering of an intellectual life on film.
75th Berlinale: Shome, in cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi & film editor Tanushree Das’s directorial debut Baksho Bondi (Shadowbox), competing in the new Perspectives segment, eternalises the lower-middle-class working woman, invisibilised mothers & mental health on screen as Chandan Bisht puts on a devastating show.
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025: Four National Award-winning indie filmmaker Lipika Singh Darai on the making of her latest epistolary film ‘B and S’, Hubert Bals Fund for her first feature ‘Birdwoman’ & choosing Odia over her mother-tongue Ho.
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025: In this final instalment of a two-part interview, the unparalleled Amit Dutta talks about his practice & influences, David Lynch, artist’s anxieties and trade-offs & why film bodies are irreplaceable.
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025: In this first instalment of a two-part interview, indie filmmaker Amit Dutta & music composer Kuldeep Barve talk about their latest animation film 'Phool ka Chhand (Rhythm of a Flower)', on singing legend Pandit Kumar Gandharva, whose birth centenary was last year.
29th International Film Festival of Kerala: Pan Nalin’s AD Subhadra Mahajan has made a graceful first film, spectacularly shot, and backed by Shyam Bora, producer of Bhaskar Hazarika’s films. 'Second Chance' screened at IFFK Kerala in Indian Cinema Now section.
Ramakaushalyan Ramakrishnan's debut feature film 'Poem of the Wind', which premiered at the 13th Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF), has as its executive producer Parth Saurabh of 'Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar' fame.
Tarun Jain, whose Devbhoomi-based short fiction 'Ballad of the Mountain' on childhood dreams & caste divides, which premiered at MAMI Mumbai & goes to DIFF Dharamshala, has been shot by cinematographer Karan Thapliyal, who went to the Oscars two years in a row.
Exclusive: Jaipur's Nidhi Saxena, the first Indian woman to get Asian Film Fund and premiered her debut feature 'Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman' at Busan International Film Festival 2024, says, ‘Our films don’t talk about women’.
MAMI 2024, from October 19-24 in Mumbai, is bookended by this year's Cannes Film Festival winners and peppered with more than 110 films many of which are prestigious global film festival winners from 45-plus countries, in 50-plus languages.
'Scoop' actor Tanmay Dhanania, for whom Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov's Un Certain Regard-premiered neo-noir ‘The Shameless’ was his first ticket to Cannes Film Festival, talks about Indian indies and Hindi film industry’s systemic problem.
Cannes 2024: Kolkata-bred Anasuya Sengupta, awarded best performance for Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s film, was the production designer on 'Masaba Masaba', 'RAY', 'Brahman Naman', and returns to acting after 15 years since 'Madly Bangalee'
Cannes 2024: 'The Shameless', a Hindi film made by Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov that screened in Un Certain Regard, is a queer love story and neo-noir revenge thriller on the world of Indian sex workers.
77th Cannes Film Festival: 'The Shameless', a lesbian love story ensconced in a neo-noir revenge thriller spotlighting the world of Indian sex workers, premiered in Un Certain Regard, and bagged the Best Performance award for one of its lead Anasuya Sengupta, the first Indian actor to get the award.
If Dibakar Banerjee introduced Miss Trans Queen India 2019 Bonita Rajpurohit among the fresh faces in his just-released 'LSD 2', Dhruv Solanki's debut independent feature 'It's All in Your Head', streaming on Gudsho, zooms in on a day in the life of Bonita and her cousins who are Americanised young people in small-town Vadodara.
Chandigarh's first international film festival, Cinevesture International Film Festival (CIFF), came to a close on a high note.
Kayo Kayo Colour? (What Colour?), by Shahrukhkhan Chavada, an independent filmmaker from Ahmedabad, is a stirring poetic ode to the ordinariness of his community’s life rarely seen on the big screen in India.
The veteran documentary filmmaker’s latest film Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam/The World is Family, which won Best Editing Award at IDFA Amsterdam 2023, is a remembrance of things past: of pre-Independence India through his family’s history.
Actor Zarin Shihab talks about what was the most challenging bit for her in her latest, much-talked-about Malayalam film Anand Ekarshi's Aattam, moving to Kerala from Mumbai, and how theatre has helped the actor evolve.
The debut feature has the rare feat of having been re-invited by the prestigious Berlinale last year for a premiere after it was retracted following a legal tussle between its producers.
Tejpal’s debut crime thriller premiered at Venice International Film Festival, won Special Mention at Zurich Film Festival, found global distributor in Paris-based Charades but awaits a distributor in its country of origin where movies are privately funded.
