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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 16 reiterated India’s commitment to finalising the long-awaited FTA with the EU by the end of 2025

What’s the ‘Brahmin’ controversy & misogyny around IFFR 2025 NETPAC Award winner Varsha Bharath’s Tamil film ‘Bad Girl’: Explained

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025: Varsha Bharath’s ‘Bad Girl’, which marks music composer Amit Trivedi's Tamil film-music debut, has won NETPAC Award in IFFR 2025 Tiger Competition, previously won by Arun Karthick, Mani Kaul & Adoor Gopalakrishnan. But trolls hit out at the film's producer Vetrimaaran & presenter Anurag Kashyap. Why?

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

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.

IFFR 2025 | Suman Mukhopadhyay: ‘Never have my films been in circulation; I’m an in-between in Bengali film industry’

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025: Suman Mukhopadhyay, whose film Putulnacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale) is in Big Screen Competition at IFFR, and whose brilliant debut 'Herbert' completes 20 years, talks about what ails & fails Bengali cinema, literary adaptations, censorship, Anurag Kashyap & Payal Kapadia.

IFFR 2025: The resurrection of Bengali cinema, which Anurag Kashyap calls ‘ghatiya’

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025: While Anurag Kashyap finds contemporary mainstream Bengali films in poor taste, Bengali indies remain underseen. Three Bengali films at IFFR, with one in competition, is a coup. Is it a mere fluke or a churning is underway? Filmmakers Suman Mukhopadhyay, Pradipta Bhattacharyya & Ishaan Ghose weigh in

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

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.

IFFR 2024 | ‘Meera wanted Radha to exist, as a better version of herself, to reach Krishna’: Anirban Dutta

Independent filmmaker Anirban Dutta, whose second feature Anubhuti premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam, talks about his highly stylised film on Krishna-devotee Meera's literature and not her life, and the need for slow cinema in India today.

Jeff Bezos’ yacht quietly moved out of Dutch shipyard after backlash | Watch

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Jeff Bezos’ superyacht was quietly moved out of the Dutch shipyard where it was built.

Nearly 3,000 people plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos' superyacht. Here's why

Jeff Bezos's 430-million-euro ($485 million) superyacht is too big for the iconic Koningshaven Bridge, which dates from 1878 and was rebuilt after being bombed by the Nazis in 1940 during World War II.

Jeff Bezos to pay for dismantling historic Dutch bridge for his superyacht to pass

The shipyard building Jeff Bezos's three-masted superyacht near Rotterdam has asked the local council to remove the bridge's central section so it can pass through.

Ever Given, the ship that blocked the Suez Canal, arrives in Rotterdam

It was scheduled to dock at Rotterdam’s ECT Delta terminal for unloading until Aug. 3 before departing for Felixstowe, England, the port said.

Kizad: Next global and industrial hub

Shanghai, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hong Kong some of the worlds leading trading hubs and now there is one more name added to that list Abu Dhabi - Kizad all set to become the next global trading and industrial hub.