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  • Miguel Gomes on ‘Grand Tour’ & colonialism: ‘I want the Western viewer to be a little lost’

    EXCLUSIVE: Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes’ 2024 Cannes Film Festival Best Director-winning era-spanning, continent-hopping historical drama ‘Grand Tour’ streams on MUBI. Gomes’ cinema has been an influence on Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia.

  • Oscars-nominated ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ review: Sandra Hüller dazzles in this courtroom drama that puts a marriage on trial

    Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, the contender for 96th Academy Awards in Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Actress, is part legal thriller, part portrait of a marriage, part character study, and wholly a meditation on the elusive nature of truth.

  • MC Exclusive | How Malaysian Oscar entry Tiger Stripes is inspired by 1950s cult Malay female ghost created by a Kerala man

    Malaysia’s 2024 Academy Awards entry Tiger Stripes, Amanda Nell Eu’s debut film about puberty and monsters, inspired by 1950s horror cult Pontianak by BN Rao, showed in India after screening at AFI Fest 2023.

  • ‘Queer representation in films and television is still lacking a lot’: Greek director Zacharias Mavroeidis

    Greek director Zacharias Mavroeidis' 'The Summer with Carmen', which showed at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles, is a spin on the classic rom-com that wears the rainbow shades with pride.

  • Jio MAMI 2023 | ‘Serbia used to be cut-off, now it’s stuck between the East & West, tradition & globalisation’: Nina Ognjanović

    Serbian filmmaker Nina Ognjanović, whose Slamdance winner debut neo-Western feature 'Where the Road Leads' screens at Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, talks about her film, Serbian cinema, and loving Satyajit Ray's films.

  • Jio MAMI 2023 | Turkish filmmaker Selman Nacar: ‘Cinema is a very good tool to ask questions’

    Selman Nacar on visiting India with his Venice-premiered 'Hesitation Wound' at Mumbai Film Festival's world cinema segment, on making legal and relationship drama thrillers and cinema's effect being indirect and profound, not direct and superficial.

  • Who is Souleymane Cissé, awarded Carrosse d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2023?

    Malian director Souleymane Cissé, one of Africa’s boldest and most pioneering auteurs, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest African filmmakers of all time, was conferred this year’s Carrosse d’Or (the Golden Coach) award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

  • Ousmane Sembène at 100: a guide to the life and work of the ‘father of African cinema’

    In his 100th year, a look back at the impact of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, the 'father of African cinema', who was the first to make a film in an African language, and pioneer of 1950s-'60s African cinema. His neorealist films, moved away from European cinema, to show African life and working-class people stripped off all stereotypes.

  • 'We are different; we must talk about that. For me, my identity is not a handicap, it’s my heritage': French-Lebanese filmmaker Chloé Mazlo

    Chloé Mazlo's first feature film, a personal story, inspired from her grandmother's life, 'Skies of Lebanon' will be the closing film of the French Film Festival, showcasing 'Women Directors from France', on January 23 in New Delhi.

  • Oscars nominations 2023 | 'Colin Farrell' to 'Michelle Yeoh', who will get an Academy Award Best Actor and Best Actress nomination?

    Our pick for potential nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress at the 95th Academy Awards.

  • Oscars nominations 2023 | 'Avatar' or 'RRR', who will get an Academy Award Best Picture nomination?

    This year, 301 movies are eligible to be nominated for the biggest prize in movies. From a whole new world in 'Avatar: The Way of Water', to a small apartment in 'The Whale'; from 'The Woman King' to 'Women Talking', who will make the cut?

  • World cinema: Pier Paolo Pasolini centenary, seven Italian films come to Delhi

    On the occasion of Pasolini's birth centenary, the Italian Cultural Centre is bringing seven of his films, from November 2-9, to the India Habitat Centre. Those outside the national capital can watch these movies on MUBI

  • Cannes Film Festival: India's next generation of film-makers takes a seat at the high table of world cinema

    A film school production and a documentary on saving the Black Kite join restored works of Satyajit Ray and G. Aravindan in the French Riviera.

  • Toronto Film Festival: Wayanad's 'River of Blood', Jodhpur's 'Bullet Baba' temple, now frames of world cinema

    The 46th Toronto International Film Festival from September 9-18, with in-person and digital screenings, addresses the anxieties of a pandemic-hit world.

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