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    • Hot Docs winner Vivek Chaudhary’s ‘I, Poppy’ is a potent telling of farmers trapped in the opium paradox

      After Nishtha Jain's 'Farming the Revolution' last year, Vivek Chaudhary's 'I, Poppy' is the second Indian non-fiction film on Indian farmers to win the top jury prize, Best International Feature Documentary, at the prestigious Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto this month.

    • MAMI Review A Fly on the Wall: Nilesh Maniyar & Shonali Bose’s soul-crushing documentary freezes friend Chika Kapadia’s wilful death on film

      MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: Late Chika Kapadia, who was also a standup comic, is full of life in a documentary on his assisted suicide following terminal cancer. Nilesh Maniyar & Shonali Bose's directorial premiered at Busan, showed in Mumbai and goes to Dharamshala.

    • National Award winner Miriam Chandy Menacherry: ‘I belong to a generation that began the new wave of Indian documentary cinema’

      70th National Film Awards: Miriam Chandy Menacherry has won the Best Non-Feature Film Direction for her documentary film 'From the Shadows', on missing girls and girl child sex trafficking. She talks about making her ‘toughest film’ and the documentary movement in India.

    • HFF 2024: Documentary on Guwahati's iconic Assam-type house archives its famous inhabitants, the Baruas, and their contribution to Assamese culture

      National Award-winning filmmaker Utpal Borpujari's new documentary, 'The House of Baruas/Baruar Xongxar', which captures Assam's famous Baruas and their contribution in Assamese films, music, sports, screened at Delhi's Habitat Film Festival this week and will next compete at New York Indian Film Festival this month.

    • Review: JioCinema’s Equals is a delightful survey of India’s undernourished musical traditions

      Equals is a welcome act of preservation and a significant creative update on the insipid attempts of the past.

    • Oscars 2024: The ‘India story’ continues to dazzle Oscars’ documentary category

      The nomination for Indian-Canadian director Nisha Pahuja's To Kill a Tiger this week marks a remarkable run for India-related documentary films at the Academy Awards in recent years. More documentaries from and on India have earned Academy nominations than Indian feature films.

    • The fate of Iron Women of Manipur and other Indian sports documentary films

      Distribution is the biggest roadblock. A majority of sports documentaries shown in festivals in India don’t get a wider release, unless there are big, known names from the world of cinema associated with it.

    • 6 must-watch documentary films on borders

      In the absence of violence, what is life like along a national border? Samarth Mahajan, whose documentary 'Borderlands' dropped on YouTube, recommends these documentary films to explore the idea of borders

    • TIFF 2023 | Anand Patwardhan: ‘It is up to each person to take the better aspects from our cultural past’

      One of the top draws at the ongoing 48th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was the much-anticipated TIFF Docs premiere of the veteran award-winning documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan's new film, 'The World is Family (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam)'.

    • All That Breathes’ co-cinematographer Riju Das: ‘Shaunak, the editors were three kites hovering over a landfill of footages, carefully choosing’

    • 'All That Breathes' and the evolution of the Oscars documentary feature category

    • Who's the Oscar winner The Elephant Whisperer's co-cinematographer who's at the Academy Awards second year in a row?

    • Oscars nominations 2023 | Four reasons why ‘All That Breathes’ should win Best Documentary award

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