Film festivalDeepa, one of the pioneers of documentary filmmaking in India, has been named the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala.One from a circle of women sitting on the floor of a house in rural India says without a prompt that men are afraid of the “strange kind of power” women have – of being able to give birth, create a new life, and to control that power, they invented menstrual taboos. Another says, 70 % of the households in their slums are run by women, and that ‘man of the house’ is just an empty title because all he does is gamble and drink and play cards, while the women sell vegetables, clean, cook, and raise children. A third woman says with a smile that motherhood is not something you can impose on someone, and that one will be a mother...
- 8/5/2023
- by Cris
- The News Minute
All That Breathes.When Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh decided to mount an Oscar campaign in October 2021 for their film Writing with Fire, they were attempting a historic first. Until then, no Indian documentary feature had ever been on the radar for the Academy Awards. The general assumption has always been that India had only one category to gun for: Best International Feature Film. Every year since 1957, the Film Federation of India (Ffi), an apex body comprising Indian film producers, exhibitors, distributors, and studio owners, has appointed a committee to select the country’s official submission from the year’s releases. These selections have often proved to be arbitrary decisions, rarely standing a chance at even making the shortlist, primarily due to a vague selection process that lacks credibility. In the last six decades, only three Indian submissions—Mother India (1957), Salaam Bombay (1988), and Lagaan (2001)—actually ended up with a nomination.
- 4/10/2023
- MUBI
It is my experience that one gets a far richer, stranger cinema education in pursuing the careers of actors, that group defined first by (assuming luck shines upon them) two or three era-defining films and then so much that dictates their industry—pet projects, contractual obligations, called-in favors alimony payments, auteur one-offs, and on and on. Few embody that deluge of circumstance better than Michelle Yeoh and Isabelle Huppert, both of whom are receiving spotlights in March. The former’s is a who’s-who of Hong Kong talent, new favorites (The Heroic Trio), items we can at least say are of interest (Trio‘s not-great sequel Executioners), etc.
Huppert’s series runs longer, and notwithstanding certain standards that have long sat on the channel it adds some heavy hitters: Hong’s In Another Country, Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness, Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come. And, of course,...
Huppert’s series runs longer, and notwithstanding certain standards that have long sat on the channel it adds some heavy hitters: Hong’s In Another Country, Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Breillat’s Abuse of Weakness, Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come. And, of course,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
When the Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature were announced last year, a big underdog made the cut: Writing with Fire.
The film lacked both a major U.S. distributor and streaming partner. It hailed from India, a country with a vast narrative filmmaking tradition, but less of an imprint in documentaries. Directors Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas told the triumphant story of India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women in an industry dominated by men, and in the process made Oscar history.
“The fact that this was the first Indian documentary feature to be nominated became just such big news,” Thomas told Deadline last year. “A billion people sort of erupted in joy because we’re a film-loving nation.”
‘Writing With Fire’ Directors Sushmit Ghosh (left) and Rintu Thomas
The passage of a year has given Thomas and Ghosh a chance to reflect on the emergence of Indian...
The film lacked both a major U.S. distributor and streaming partner. It hailed from India, a country with a vast narrative filmmaking tradition, but less of an imprint in documentaries. Directors Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas told the triumphant story of India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women in an industry dominated by men, and in the process made Oscar history.
“The fact that this was the first Indian documentary feature to be nominated became just such big news,” Thomas told Deadline last year. “A billion people sort of erupted in joy because we’re a film-loving nation.”
‘Writing With Fire’ Directors Sushmit Ghosh (left) and Rintu Thomas
The passage of a year has given Thomas and Ghosh a chance to reflect on the emergence of Indian...
- 1/11/2023
- by Sunil Sadarangani
- Deadline Film + TV
DocumentaryIn times of anti-caa and Nrc protests, this documentary reveals how important women are in nation-building.Basav BiradarThe anti-caa and Nrc protests and reports of subsequent arrests and detentions of the last few days have reminded many of similar episodes during the 1970s Emergency period. Contrary to what we might assume, even then, like today, a large majority of people had supported the Emergency. The public transport facilities like the buses and trains were on time, prices of commodities were low, and an illusion of discipline and order was created. Renowned filmmaker Sns Sastry documented this public sentiment in We have Promises to Keep – a documentary film he made in 1975. Similar to today, during the Emergency too, public intellectuals, media personnel, students, activists and politicians were out on the streets protesting along with the common people. The crackdown on these protests led to more than a lakh people being arrested and imprisoned.
- 12/31/2019
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
Dalit film festThe festival, held on February 23-24 in New York, included films in Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil and Nepali, covering a wide variety of Dalit stories and assertion.Ravikiran ShindePa Ranjith, Niharika Singh and Nagraj Manjule at the event“My goodness, you have so many stories in your life since childhood … I have none. I just studied Class 12 and came to college, that’s it.” This is what Jo, an upper caste girl, tells Periyerum, a Dalit boy, in the movie Pariyerum Perumal. Directed by Mari Selvaraj and produced by Pa Ranjith, the film was screened at the inaugural Dalit Film and Cultural Festival held on February 23-24 in New York. It was a befitting start to the event, indicating the necessity to showcase and celebrate Dalit stories and culture. The festival, called Daliff, was part of a two-day extravaganza held at and co-hosted by Barnard College, Columbia University and The New York School.
- 3/1/2019
- by Vidya
- The News Minute
CinemaJayan K Cherian's 'Papilio Buddha' and Divya Bharathi's 'Kakkoos' are among the feature films and documentaries which will be screened.Tnm StaffThe Dalit Film and Cultural Festival 2019 is all set to take place at Columbia University, New York on February 23 and 24. The festival includes feature films as well as documentaries. Two Tamil films and one Malayalam film are part of the six shortlisted feature films. In Tamil, Pariyerum Perumal directed by Mari Selvaraj, and Kaala directed by Pa Ranjith have made it to the list while it's Jayan K Cherian's Papilio Buddha which has been selected in Malayalam. Pa Ranjith is also one of the three honourable guests at the festival, the others being acclaimed Marathi filmmaker Nagraj Manjule, and actor and former Miss India Earth Niharika Singh. Other feature films on the list are Masaan, Fandry, and Bole India Jai Bhim. The documentaries by southern filmmakers which will...
- 1/29/2019
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
The 2nd edition of the Urban Lens film festival will screen over 35 non-fiction films from India, South Africa, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Canada, in an attempt to engage with how the ‘city’ has found a cinematic expression in non-fiction films over a period of time.
The festival will be held from September 26-28, 2014 at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Iihs), Bangalore City campus. This year, the festival will also feature specially curated package of films from the Films Division archive, special screenings and a public talk. Entry to all films is free.
Each film that is part of this festival will explore different facets of what the city produces – whether political, social, economic or cultural. Deepa Dhanraj’s classic documentary film Kya Hua Is Shehar Ko looks at the communal riots of Hyderabad while Saba Dewan’s The Other Song chronicles the life of the singer Rasoolan Bai from...
The festival will be held from September 26-28, 2014 at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (Iihs), Bangalore City campus. This year, the festival will also feature specially curated package of films from the Films Division archive, special screenings and a public talk. Entry to all films is free.
Each film that is part of this festival will explore different facets of what the city produces – whether political, social, economic or cultural. Deepa Dhanraj’s classic documentary film Kya Hua Is Shehar Ko looks at the communal riots of Hyderabad while Saba Dewan’s The Other Song chronicles the life of the singer Rasoolan Bai from...
- 9/23/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Children of The Pyre
The 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival, which began on July 31 and will go on till August 17, is screening a total of 11 Indian films in different categories.
The lineup includes recent films like Kanu Behl’s Titli (world premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2014) and Avinash Arun’s Killa (world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2014) as well as festival favourites like Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry.
A specially curated section at the festival, India in Flux: Living Resistance, will screen some of the most important Indian documentaries of recent times including Ashim Ahluwalia’s John & Jane, Rajesh Jala’s Children of the Pyre, Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade, Deepa Dhanraj’s Invoking Justice, Farida Pacha’s My Name is Salt, Avijit Mukul Kishore’s Vertical City and Ranu Ghosh’s Quarter Number 4/11. These documentaries showcase the history of dissent and engagement with the ‘real’ while discussing matters of politics,...
The 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival, which began on July 31 and will go on till August 17, is screening a total of 11 Indian films in different categories.
The lineup includes recent films like Kanu Behl’s Titli (world premiere at Cannes Film Festival 2014) and Avinash Arun’s Killa (world premiere at Berlin Film Festival 2014) as well as festival favourites like Nagraj Manjule’s Fandry.
A specially curated section at the festival, India in Flux: Living Resistance, will screen some of the most important Indian documentaries of recent times including Ashim Ahluwalia’s John & Jane, Rajesh Jala’s Children of the Pyre, Anand Patwardhan’s Jai Bhim Comrade, Deepa Dhanraj’s Invoking Justice, Farida Pacha’s My Name is Salt, Avijit Mukul Kishore’s Vertical City and Ranu Ghosh’s Quarter Number 4/11. These documentaries showcase the history of dissent and engagement with the ‘real’ while discussing matters of politics,...
- 8/4/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What:
Special Screening of award winners @ Miff’2014
When:
15th February, 2014- Through the day.
Entry:
Free.
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor,
Films Division
24, Pedder Road,
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
10 am
Have You Seen The Arana ? by Sunanda Bhatt
Best Documentary Film, National (Above 40 mins.)
Best Cinematographer — Saumyananda Sahi
Best Sound Recordist — Chistopher Burchell
11.30 am
In Between : Isang Yun in North and South Korea by Maria Stodtmeier
Best Documentary Film, International (Above 60 mins.)
12.45 pm
Seven Hundred Zero Zero Seven by Altaf Mazid
Best Documentary Film, National (Upto 40 mins.)
Tamaash (The Puppet ) by Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh
Best Short Fiction Film National (Upto 45 Mins.)
Best Cinematographer — Sahir Raza
Best Sound Recordist — Yatin Dabhi, Manoj Sikka, Abhishek Bhattathiri
Black Rock by Vikrant Janardan Pawar
Best Short Fiction Film International (Upto 45 Mins.)
Best Sound Recordist — Dilip Kumar Ahirwar
2.45pm
True Love Story by Gitanjali Rao
Best Animation Film
Screening followed by discussion...
Special Screening of award winners @ Miff’2014
When:
15th February, 2014- Through the day.
Entry:
Free.
Venue:
Rr Theatre, 10th floor,
Films Division
24, Pedder Road,
Mumbai-400026
About the event:
10 am
Have You Seen The Arana ? by Sunanda Bhatt
Best Documentary Film, National (Above 40 mins.)
Best Cinematographer — Saumyananda Sahi
Best Sound Recordist — Chistopher Burchell
11.30 am
In Between : Isang Yun in North and South Korea by Maria Stodtmeier
Best Documentary Film, International (Above 60 mins.)
12.45 pm
Seven Hundred Zero Zero Seven by Altaf Mazid
Best Documentary Film, National (Upto 40 mins.)
Tamaash (The Puppet ) by Satyanshu Singh and Devanshu Singh
Best Short Fiction Film National (Upto 45 Mins.)
Best Cinematographer — Sahir Raza
Best Sound Recordist — Yatin Dabhi, Manoj Sikka, Abhishek Bhattathiri
Black Rock by Vikrant Janardan Pawar
Best Short Fiction Film International (Upto 45 Mins.)
Best Sound Recordist — Dilip Kumar Ahirwar
2.45pm
True Love Story by Gitanjali Rao
Best Animation Film
Screening followed by discussion...
- 2/11/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 6th edition of Persistence Resistance, a documentary film festival, will take place from 16-20 February, 2014.
It will take place over the three venues of Goethe Institut – Max Mueller Bhavan, India International Centre – Main Auditorium and Khoj International Artists’ Association.The inaugural film of the festival is Deepa Dhanraj’s 1986 documentary on communal violence in Hyderabad, Kya Hua Iss Shehar Ko. Dhanraj’s 1991 film on family planning, Something Like a War that won the Best Long Documentary at Films De Femmes, Creteil, France, will also be screened.
Sanjay Kak and Rupleena Bose will be the panelists on a discussion on Bidesia and Beyond: Subaltern Realities. Surabhi Sharma’s Can we see the baby bump please, from last year will also get a screening.
A still from No Problem
Manak Matiyani will be seen discussing, Shared Practice, with Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar. Winner of River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival,...
It will take place over the three venues of Goethe Institut – Max Mueller Bhavan, India International Centre – Main Auditorium and Khoj International Artists’ Association.The inaugural film of the festival is Deepa Dhanraj’s 1986 documentary on communal violence in Hyderabad, Kya Hua Iss Shehar Ko. Dhanraj’s 1991 film on family planning, Something Like a War that won the Best Long Documentary at Films De Femmes, Creteil, France, will also be screened.
Sanjay Kak and Rupleena Bose will be the panelists on a discussion on Bidesia and Beyond: Subaltern Realities. Surabhi Sharma’s Can we see the baby bump please, from last year will also get a screening.
A still from No Problem
Manak Matiyani will be seen discussing, Shared Practice, with Anjali Monteiro and K. P. Jayasankar. Winner of River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival,...
- 2/11/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Gitanjai Rao’s “True Love Story” won Golden Conch for Best Animation Film at Miff 2014
Nishtha Jain’s documentary ‘Gulabi Gang’, won her the Best Director Award in the International Competition section of Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff). The film is releasing on February 21 under PVR Director’s Rare banner.
The seven day festival dedicated to documentary, Shorts and Animation films concluded in Mumbai today.
‘Gulabi Gang’ tells the story of Sampat Pal and her group of women vigilantes and activists from Bundelkhand, who fight for womens’ rights and their empowerment. Armed with a lathi (stick) the Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up unless they stop abusing their wives. The film has won several other award.
Read Nishtha Jain’S Interview Here
Golden Conch Best Animation Film award to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao
The Golden Conch Best Animation Film award went to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao.
Nishtha Jain’s documentary ‘Gulabi Gang’, won her the Best Director Award in the International Competition section of Mumbai International Film Festival (Miff). The film is releasing on February 21 under PVR Director’s Rare banner.
The seven day festival dedicated to documentary, Shorts and Animation films concluded in Mumbai today.
‘Gulabi Gang’ tells the story of Sampat Pal and her group of women vigilantes and activists from Bundelkhand, who fight for womens’ rights and their empowerment. Armed with a lathi (stick) the Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up unless they stop abusing their wives. The film has won several other award.
Read Nishtha Jain’S Interview Here
Golden Conch Best Animation Film award to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao
The Golden Conch Best Animation Film award went to ‘True Love Story’ by Gitanjali Rao.
- 2/9/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What:
Inauguration of Shehernama- Documentary film festival- by V. S. Kundu, Director General, Films Division; Shabana Azmi, actor and social activist; Kiran Nagarkar, writer; Manaswini Lata Ravindra (poet) and Sandeep Chachra, Country Director, ActionAid India.
When:
Festival: January 30-February 1, 2014
Inauguration: 30th January, Thursday, 2.00-3.30 pm.
Venue:
Mayor’s Hall,
All India Institute of Local Self Governance,
Juhu Galli,
Andheri (W), Mumbai
About the event:
Documentary filmmakers Surabhi Sharma and Avijit Mukul Kishore have put together an international documentary film festival called Shehernama, which focuses on cities around the world.
The festival will bring together many renowned and international documentary filmmakers like Deepa Dhanraj, Zhang Yaxuan (China), Jewel Maranan (Phillipines) and film academician Nicole Wolf from London.
The full schedule of the festival can be found here...
Inauguration of Shehernama- Documentary film festival- by V. S. Kundu, Director General, Films Division; Shabana Azmi, actor and social activist; Kiran Nagarkar, writer; Manaswini Lata Ravindra (poet) and Sandeep Chachra, Country Director, ActionAid India.
When:
Festival: January 30-February 1, 2014
Inauguration: 30th January, Thursday, 2.00-3.30 pm.
Venue:
Mayor’s Hall,
All India Institute of Local Self Governance,
Juhu Galli,
Andheri (W), Mumbai
About the event:
Documentary filmmakers Surabhi Sharma and Avijit Mukul Kishore have put together an international documentary film festival called Shehernama, which focuses on cities around the world.
The festival will bring together many renowned and international documentary filmmakers like Deepa Dhanraj, Zhang Yaxuan (China), Jewel Maranan (Phillipines) and film academician Nicole Wolf from London.
The full schedule of the festival can be found here...
- 1/29/2014
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Film Southasia, Festival of South Asian Documentaries has announced its selection for 2013 edition. Fifteen Indian documentaries will be screened at the festival that will take place from 3-6 October in Kathmandu, Nepal. Film Southasia (Fsa) is a biennial festival that was set up in 1997 with the goal of popularizing the documentary.
Selected Indian films:
A Prayer For Aliyah by Zorawar Shukla
Algorithms by Ian McDonald
Big In Bollywood by Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles
Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Char…No Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi
Elemental by Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee
Fire In The Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray
Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerji
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by Satchith Paulose
Immoral Daughters by Nakul Singh Sawhney
Invoking Justice by Deepa Dhanraj
Salma by Kim Longinotto
Sama by Shazia Khan
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler...
Selected Indian films:
A Prayer For Aliyah by Zorawar Shukla
Algorithms by Ian McDonald
Big In Bollywood by Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles
Celluloid Man by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Char…No Man’s Island by Sourav Sarangi
Elemental by Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee
Fire In The Blood by Dylan Mohan Gray
Gaur in My Garden by Rita Banerji
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread by Satchith Paulose
Immoral Daughters by Nakul Singh Sawhney
Invoking Justice by Deepa Dhanraj
Salma by Kim Longinotto
Sama by Shazia Khan
The Human Factor by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
Voice of God by Bernd Lützeler...
- 8/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 1st Students’ Film Festival of India will be held from 19th – 24th, April, 2013 at the Film and Television Institute of India (Ftii), Law College Road, Pune.
For full line-up of the festival, click here.
Ftii alumnus Kundan Shah, who directed the cult-classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983) will preside over the Jury of the festival.
The members of the Short Fiction Jury are film scholar Moinak Biswas , Srfti alumnus and filmmaker Vipin Vijay, and documentary filmmaker and Ftii alumnus R.V. Ramani.
The Documentary Jury comprises Ftii alumnus and filmmaker Sourav Sarangi, filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj and Srfti alumnus and filmmaker Paban Haobam.
Animation Jury comprises Ftii alumnus Michael Joseph, Gauri Patwardhan and Milind Kuri.
In the Short Fiction (upto 10 min) category, Best Film and Best Director awards will be given.
In the Short Fiction (above 10 min) category: Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Design and Audiography, Best Script,...
For full line-up of the festival, click here.
Ftii alumnus Kundan Shah, who directed the cult-classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983) will preside over the Jury of the festival.
The members of the Short Fiction Jury are film scholar Moinak Biswas , Srfti alumnus and filmmaker Vipin Vijay, and documentary filmmaker and Ftii alumnus R.V. Ramani.
The Documentary Jury comprises Ftii alumnus and filmmaker Sourav Sarangi, filmmaker Deepa Dhanraj and Srfti alumnus and filmmaker Paban Haobam.
Animation Jury comprises Ftii alumnus Michael Joseph, Gauri Patwardhan and Milind Kuri.
In the Short Fiction (upto 10 min) category, Best Film and Best Director awards will be given.
In the Short Fiction (above 10 min) category: Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound Design and Audiography, Best Script,...
- 4/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Raja Harishchandra
The 19th Bradford International Film Festival will celebrate the centenary year of Indian Cinema with the screening of 12 Indian films. The festival will be held from April 11 – 21, 2013, across cities in the UK.
“100 years on, the 19th Bradford International Film Festival wishes Indian cinema a happy centenary by devoting a large chunk of our programming to this inexhaustibly fertile source of astonishing films,” said Tom Vincent and Neil Young, Co-Directors of the festival.
The festival has lined up a wide range of Indian films from Raja Harishchandra to Mumbai Cha Raja.
The line-up includes:
Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913),
Franz Osten’s India – UK – Germany production Prapancha Pash (1929),
Uday Shankar’s Kalpana (1948),
Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1957) and Mughal-e-Azam (1957),
Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977),
Yash Chopra’s Silsila (1981),
Deepa Dhanraj’s Kya Hua Iss Shehar Ko? (1986),
Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995),
Sandeep Ray’s...
The 19th Bradford International Film Festival will celebrate the centenary year of Indian Cinema with the screening of 12 Indian films. The festival will be held from April 11 – 21, 2013, across cities in the UK.
“100 years on, the 19th Bradford International Film Festival wishes Indian cinema a happy centenary by devoting a large chunk of our programming to this inexhaustibly fertile source of astonishing films,” said Tom Vincent and Neil Young, Co-Directors of the festival.
The festival has lined up a wide range of Indian films from Raja Harishchandra to Mumbai Cha Raja.
The line-up includes:
Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913),
Franz Osten’s India – UK – Germany production Prapancha Pash (1929),
Uday Shankar’s Kalpana (1948),
Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1957) and Mughal-e-Azam (1957),
Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977),
Yash Chopra’s Silsila (1981),
Deepa Dhanraj’s Kya Hua Iss Shehar Ko? (1986),
Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995),
Sandeep Ray’s...
- 3/12/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Bradford International Film Festival is typically an underground-friendly fest. This year appears to be no exception with two very special experimental film retrospectives, as well as a few modern underground-type flicks.
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
The 19th annual Biff will roll on April 11-21 at several locations around Bradford and Leeds in England, including the National Media Museum, Hebden Bridge Picture House, Hyde Park Picture House and other venues.
Biff is hosting a tribute to Stan Brakhage this year by screening the prolific filmmaker’s magnum opus, Dog Star Man, as well as a selection of his short films, from 1963′s legendary Mothlight to 1994′s Black Ice. There’s also going to be an epic-sized tribute/retrospective of experimental films from Austria, a country with a proud avant-garde filmmaking tradition that’s typically overlooked.
From Austria, Biff is, of course, screening two works from one of the experimental film world’s biggest masters,...
- 3/11/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 63rd Berlin International Film Festival or Berlinale begins on February 7 at the Berlin Palast with Wong Kar Wai’s martial-arts drama The Grandmaster.
The ten day festival will be inaugurated by Wong Kar Wai, who heads the international jury and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick.
This year 19 films will compete for the Golden Bear Award while the Honorary Golden Bear will be presented to French documentary filmmaker and producer Claude Lanzmann.
Five Indian films will be screened at the festival: Abhishek Kapoor’s Kai Po Che in Panorama Special, Deepa Dhanraj’s Kya hua is shahar ko? in the Forum Expanded section, Sourav Sarangi’s Char… the No Man’s Island and Powerless by Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar in Berlinale Forum and Govinda Raju’s Sonyacha Aamba in Generation Kplus Short Film section. See here for India at Berlinale 2013.
The award ceremony will be held on February 16, 2013...
The ten day festival will be inaugurated by Wong Kar Wai, who heads the international jury and Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick.
This year 19 films will compete for the Golden Bear Award while the Honorary Golden Bear will be presented to French documentary filmmaker and producer Claude Lanzmann.
Five Indian films will be screened at the festival: Abhishek Kapoor’s Kai Po Che in Panorama Special, Deepa Dhanraj’s Kya hua is shahar ko? in the Forum Expanded section, Sourav Sarangi’s Char… the No Man’s Island and Powerless by Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar in Berlinale Forum and Govinda Raju’s Sonyacha Aamba in Generation Kplus Short Film section. See here for India at Berlinale 2013.
The award ceremony will be held on February 16, 2013...
- 2/7/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Still from Kya Hua Is Shahar Ko?
In the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival (from Feb 7-17), five Indian films have made the cut in various sections of the festival. No, as reported by some sections of the media ( here and here), Ram Gopal Varma’s The Attacks of 26/11 is not one of them. Here are the five films:
Panorama Special: Kai Po Che (Brothers… For life) by Abhishek Kapoor
Kai Po Che is the adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’. It revolves around Ishaan, Omi and Govind who are young, ambitious, restless and best of friends.
“Skilfully merging traditional elements of mainstream Indian filmmaking, a sensitive score and exquisite use of unique locations, Kai Po Che stands out as an example of modern cinema from Bollywood. It deals with India’s reality in a distinctive manner, and is surprisingly different in its ambition to...
In the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival (from Feb 7-17), five Indian films have made the cut in various sections of the festival. No, as reported by some sections of the media ( here and here), Ram Gopal Varma’s The Attacks of 26/11 is not one of them. Here are the five films:
Panorama Special: Kai Po Che (Brothers… For life) by Abhishek Kapoor
Kai Po Che is the adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s novel ‘The 3 Mistakes of My Life’. It revolves around Ishaan, Omi and Govind who are young, ambitious, restless and best of friends.
“Skilfully merging traditional elements of mainstream Indian filmmaking, a sensitive score and exquisite use of unique locations, Kai Po Che stands out as an example of modern cinema from Bollywood. It deals with India’s reality in a distinctive manner, and is surprisingly different in its ambition to...
- 2/4/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
Three recent Bollywood blockbusters are headed to Hawaii for a spotlight on India section. The 32nd edition of the Hawaii International Film Festival will screen Barf!i, Ek tha Tiger and Cocktail apart from Invoking Justice and Achele.
The festival, that runs from 11th – 12th October, 2012, has a ‘Spotlight’ section for five Asian countries; India, Japan Korea, Taiwan and Philippines this year.
Invoking Justice
Dir.: Deepa Dhanraj
Invoking Justice is a 85 minute documentary based in Pudukkottai, a town in the South Indian state of Tamilnadu. An all-male assembly called a Jamaat investigates crimes as well as civil matters and coordinates with the police and court system to administer justice. By Islamic tradition, no woman can appear before it. It is therefore unsurprising that domestic violence against women, who have no voice, is a traditionally common way of life.
Achele (India/UK)
Dir.: Clara Kraft Isono
The 17 minute short is written,...
The festival, that runs from 11th – 12th October, 2012, has a ‘Spotlight’ section for five Asian countries; India, Japan Korea, Taiwan and Philippines this year.
Invoking Justice
Dir.: Deepa Dhanraj
Invoking Justice is a 85 minute documentary based in Pudukkottai, a town in the South Indian state of Tamilnadu. An all-male assembly called a Jamaat investigates crimes as well as civil matters and coordinates with the police and court system to administer justice. By Islamic tradition, no woman can appear before it. It is therefore unsurprising that domestic violence against women, who have no voice, is a traditionally common way of life.
Achele (India/UK)
Dir.: Clara Kraft Isono
The 17 minute short is written,...
- 9/25/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Persistence Resistance 2011: Documentary Practices in India, a festival of documentary films will be held in London from November 1-8, 2011.
“While we start with a focus on Indian documentary practice to create a more informed ground to explore its specific histories, styles and provocations, the aim is to explore further political and aesthetic affiliations across geographical locations and disciplines,” reads a statement on the official website of the festival.
Filmmaker like Arun Khopkar, Deepa Dhanraj, Rahul Roy, Rajula and Shah Saba Dewan, from India, Yasmine Kabir from Bangladesh, as well as UK based filmmakers John Wyver, Mairead McClean, Mao Mollona, Margaret Dickinson and Simon Chambers and will be joined by, and be in conversations with, Alisa Lebow, Alpa Shah, Guilia Battaglia, Laura Bear, Lotte Hoek, Lucia King, Nicole Wolf, Partha Mitter, Radha D’Souza, Ravi Vasudevan, Ros Gray, Rosie Thomas, Stephen Hughes, Stewart Motha and Ziba Mir Hosseini.
The documentaries...
“While we start with a focus on Indian documentary practice to create a more informed ground to explore its specific histories, styles and provocations, the aim is to explore further political and aesthetic affiliations across geographical locations and disciplines,” reads a statement on the official website of the festival.
Filmmaker like Arun Khopkar, Deepa Dhanraj, Rahul Roy, Rajula and Shah Saba Dewan, from India, Yasmine Kabir from Bangladesh, as well as UK based filmmakers John Wyver, Mairead McClean, Mao Mollona, Margaret Dickinson and Simon Chambers and will be joined by, and be in conversations with, Alisa Lebow, Alpa Shah, Guilia Battaglia, Laura Bear, Lotte Hoek, Lucia King, Nicole Wolf, Partha Mitter, Radha D’Souza, Ravi Vasudevan, Ros Gray, Rosie Thomas, Stephen Hughes, Stewart Motha and Ziba Mir Hosseini.
The documentaries...
- 10/22/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
A film and discussion series, "Moving Politics – Cinemas from India", curated by Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf will be held at the Deutsche Guggenheim museum at Germany. The event will be organized on the occasion of the exhibition, "Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India" at the museum.
Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will be screened.
Filmmakers Paromita Vohra and Partho Sen-Gupta, as well as the curator Kaushik Bhaumik will be present at the opening of the exhibition. The following films will be screened at the festival:
Superman Of Malegaon (Faiza Khan, India 2008, June 27, introduction: Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf, followed by a discussion) Malegaon is located far away from the Indian metropolises, geographically lying in the center of India. With the decline of the textile industry, tensions in the population increased: Amidst this chaos,...
Three program blocks with a selection of recent feature and documentary films as well as several classics of Indian film history will be screened.
Filmmakers Paromita Vohra and Partho Sen-Gupta, as well as the curator Kaushik Bhaumik will be present at the opening of the exhibition. The following films will be screened at the festival:
Superman Of Malegaon (Faiza Khan, India 2008, June 27, introduction: Dorothee Wenner and Nicole Wolf, followed by a discussion) Malegaon is located far away from the Indian metropolises, geographically lying in the center of India. With the decline of the textile industry, tensions in the population increased: Amidst this chaos,...
- 6/17/2010
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Wagah directed by Supriyo Sen will be the opening film of Persistence Resistance, the festival of contemporary political films which will be held in New Delhi from February 25-27.
The festival will be inaugurated by film maker Jai Chandiram on February 25. The New Delhi launch of the book 'From Rajas and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond' by Vijaya Mulay would close the inaugural session.
The closing film of the festival will be Sound of Tibet: Awakening Kindness by Kim Joon-Nyeon, with a repeat screening of wagah.
89 films will be screened in 14 venues across the venue of the festival. Films will be screened in 2 auditoria, in 6 simulated video parlours, outdoors at night, as installations and at a muti-hub video library.
The festival will present retrospective of six directors: Manjira Datta, Deepa Dhanraj, Saba Dewan, Krishnendu Bose, Sanjay Barnela (with Vasant Sabarwal) and Supriyo Sen. The festival this year will also showcase...
The festival will be inaugurated by film maker Jai Chandiram on February 25. The New Delhi launch of the book 'From Rajas and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond' by Vijaya Mulay would close the inaugural session.
The closing film of the festival will be Sound of Tibet: Awakening Kindness by Kim Joon-Nyeon, with a repeat screening of wagah.
89 films will be screened in 14 venues across the venue of the festival. Films will be screened in 2 auditoria, in 6 simulated video parlours, outdoors at night, as installations and at a muti-hub video library.
The festival will present retrospective of six directors: Manjira Datta, Deepa Dhanraj, Saba Dewan, Krishnendu Bose, Sanjay Barnela (with Vasant Sabarwal) and Supriyo Sen. The festival this year will also showcase...
- 2/24/2010
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Navroze Contractor has been the cinematographer for many pathbreaking and award winning feature films. ‘Duvidha’ directed by Mani Kaul, ‘22nd June 1897’, ‘Limited Manuski’ and ‘Devi Ahilya Bai’ directed by Nachiket Patwardhan, ‘Percy’ directed by Pervez Merwanji, ‘Love In the Time of Malaria’ directed by Sanjiv Shah, and ‘Devarkadu’ directed by Pattabhi Rama Reddy being a few of them. He also shot ‘Frames’, directed by Chetan Shah, the first feature film in India to be shot on High Definition format.
He has also contributed to the documentary scene world wide, as his name is attached with films like ‘Balad of Pabu’ by George Luneau , ‘Dreams of the Dragon’s Children,’ shot entirely in China, by Pierre Hoffmann, ‘Are You Listening’ by Martha Stewart, and the ‘Last House in Bombay ‘ by Luke Jennings. His major Indian films are ‘All in the Family’ by Ketan Mehta, ‘What Has happened to This City’, ‘Something...
He has also contributed to the documentary scene world wide, as his name is attached with films like ‘Balad of Pabu’ by George Luneau , ‘Dreams of the Dragon’s Children,’ shot entirely in China, by Pierre Hoffmann, ‘Are You Listening’ by Martha Stewart, and the ‘Last House in Bombay ‘ by Luke Jennings. His major Indian films are ‘All in the Family’ by Ketan Mehta, ‘What Has happened to This City’, ‘Something...
- 2/24/2010
- by Oorvazi Irani
- DearCinema.com
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