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Film Festivals
Notes from TIFF: COVID-19 Documentary 76 Days
76 days is frenzied, claustrophobic reportage from the frontlines of the fight against Covid.
Notes from TIFF: Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy
The six-hour miniseries is a sweeping, sumptuous saga, which has rough, clunky stretches but is ultimately wonderfully satisfying
Sushma Khadepaun’s Anita, The First Gujarati Film To Play At Venice
A conversation with the director, a Columbia University alum, whose short film is a contender in the Orrizonti (Horizons) Short Films Section.
The Chaitanya Tamhane Interview: On The Disciple, And More
“A part of the film is about a musician going through an existential crisis about his art. Cinema, too, is going through this crisis, even though it’s a much younger art.”
A Review Of Ivan Ayr's Sturdy, Lyrical Character Study, Meel Patthar
This moving tale of a trucker paints a portrait of an ecosystem where everything and everyone appears to be a metaphor for disuse, neglect, ageing.
Ashmita Guha Neogi’s CatDog: The Only Indian Film In Cannes 2020
A conversation with the FTII alum, whose short film was one of 13 narrative films and four animated films chosen for Cinéfondation 2020, from 1,952 works submitted by film schools from all over the world.
Vivek Gomber On Discovering Chaitanya Tamhane
Actor-producer Vivek Gomber on his struggles of making his mark as an actor and the challenges of producing Chaitanya Tamhane’s The Disciple
Court Director Chaitanya Tamhane On Working With Alfonso Cuaron
The filmmaker’s next feature, The Disciple, has been selected in competition at the Venice Film Festival
Soni Director Ivan Ayr On Returning To The Venice Film Festival
Ayr talks about interviewing truckers for his second feature Milestone, editing the film during a pandemic and the texts he gets from people who’ve loved Soni
Kalla Nottam At New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF): Movie Review
A regular film tells us a story that has been recorded on a camera, and then edited in a way that (usually) gives the audience knowledge that the characters themselves may not have. Here, we travel only with the camera.
The NFDC Film Bazaar Heads To The Cannes Film Market With 5 Titles
The NFDC Film Bazaar is all set to present 5 work-in-progress Indian films at this year’s Cannes Film Market
