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How this African escaped war to study cinema in India and went to Cannes
Varun Grover on Kiss: ‘Censorship is a good challenge, I find my ways around it with a new language’
Vikramaditya Motwane: ‘I’m an enabler not disruptor, that’s Anurag; we are a very sensitive country’
CIFF 2025 | Kaansya: Shakespeare meets Haryana’s akhadas in Aditya Watts’ debut feature
Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai review: Achal Mishra films Vinod Kumar Shukla & Manav Kaul in a cosy chat
Berlinale ‘Shadowbox (Baksho Bondi)’ review: Tillotama Shome pulls punches to power this Bengali drama on mothers & Others
IFFR 2025 | Lipika Singh Darai on ‘B and S’: ‘In times of crises & war, people forget to talk about tenderness’
Amit Dutta, the little-known most famous Indian auteur: ‘The kind of films I make should be sought out, not thrust upon people’
‘Kumar Gandharva was not just a musical genius but also a profound scholar & thinker’: Amit Dutta & Kuldeep Barve
IFFK 2024 ‘Second Chance’ review: A restorative Himalayan drama on loneliness, healing & unlikely friendships
‘Poem of the Wind’ review: The Tamil indie makes an Agam-Puram probe into masculinity
‘Anurag Kashyap opened the market for us’: Kohrra AD & Ballad of the Mountain maker Tarun Jain says ‘children’s content is universal content’
Busan BIFF: Nidhi Saxena’s lyrical ‘Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman’ acutely shows ‘Cinema is not the medium to tell stories’
What to watch at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024: ‘This year, MAMI is just MAMI, not Jio MAMI’, MAMI goes independent
Cannes 2024 Exclusive: 'The Shameless' actor Tanmay Dhanania on his Un Certain Regard film, independent cinema and Bollywood hegemony
Exclusive: Meet Anasuya Sengupta, first Indian to win Best Actress at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, for her queer thriller ‘The Shameless’
Exclusive: How 'The Shameless' actor Omara Shetty, from Katrina Kaif-starrer 'Phone Bhoot', went to Cannes with her lesbian love story
Cannes 2024: Why Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov made Hindi queer noir 'The Shameless', shown in Un Certain Regard
This LSD 2: Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 actor’s indie film ‘It’s All in Your Head’ is an intimate portrayal of small-town youth
'Jaggi', 'Seven Winters in Tehran' and 'Yellow' win the audience awards at 2024 CIFF, Chandigarh
Why Bollywood should watch this Shahrukhkhan’s humanist tale of ordinary Muslim life
Ram Ke Naam maker Anand Patwardhan’s historic personal turn in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
‘In Mumbai, I was only allowed to audition for south Indian roles’: The Family Man & Aattam actor Zarin Shihab
How indigenous filmmaker Chhatrapal Ninawe made Ghaath, a rare Adivasi thriller, and fought to save it
Karan Tejpal’s Stolen is a solid action thriller on mob lynching and child lifting in India

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Independent Cinema

How this African escaped war to study cinema in India and went to Cannes

Varun Grover on Kiss: ‘Censorship is a good challenge, I find my ways around it with a new language’

Vikramaditya Motwane: ‘I’m an enabler not disruptor, that’s Anurag; we are a very sensitive country’

CIFF 2025 | Kaansya: Shakespeare meets Haryana’s akhadas in Aditya Watts’ debut feature

Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai review: Achal Mishra films Vinod Kumar Shukla & Manav Kaul in a cosy chat

Berlinale ‘Shadowbox (Baksho Bondi)’ review: Tillotama Shome pulls punches to power this Bengali drama on mothers & Others

IFFR 2025 | Lipika Singh Darai on ‘B and S’: ‘In times of crises & war, people forget to talk about tenderness’

Amit Dutta, the little-known most famous Indian auteur: ‘The kind of films I make should be sought out, not thrust upon people’

‘Kumar Gandharva was not just a musical genius but also a profound scholar & thinker’: Amit Dutta & Kuldeep Barve

IFFK 2024 ‘Second Chance’ review: A restorative Himalayan drama on loneliness, healing & unlikely friendships

‘Poem of the Wind’ review: The Tamil indie makes an Agam-Puram probe into masculinity

‘Anurag Kashyap opened the market for us’: Kohrra AD & Ballad of the Mountain maker Tarun Jain says ‘children’s content is universal content’

Busan BIFF: Nidhi Saxena’s lyrical ‘Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman’ acutely shows ‘Cinema is not the medium to tell stories’

What to watch at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024: ‘This year, MAMI is just MAMI, not Jio MAMI’, MAMI goes independent

Cannes 2024 Exclusive: 'The Shameless' actor Tanmay Dhanania on his Un Certain Regard film, independent cinema and Bollywood hegemony

Exclusive: Meet Anasuya Sengupta, first Indian to win Best Actress at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, for her queer thriller ‘The Shameless’

Exclusive: How 'The Shameless' actor Omara Shetty, from Katrina Kaif-starrer 'Phone Bhoot', went to Cannes with her lesbian love story

Cannes 2024: Why Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov made Hindi queer noir 'The Shameless', shown in Un Certain Regard

This LSD 2: Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 actor’s indie film ‘It’s All in Your Head’ is an intimate portrayal of small-town youth

'Jaggi', 'Seven Winters in Tehran' and 'Yellow' win the audience awards at 2024 CIFF, Chandigarh

Why Bollywood should watch this Shahrukhkhan’s humanist tale of ordinary Muslim life

Ram Ke Naam maker Anand Patwardhan’s historic personal turn in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

‘In Mumbai, I was only allowed to audition for south Indian roles’: The Family Man & Aattam actor Zarin Shihab

How indigenous filmmaker Chhatrapal Ninawe made Ghaath, a rare Adivasi thriller, and fought to save it

Karan Tejpal’s Stolen is a solid action thriller on mob lynching and child lifting in India