In his interview with Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni equates the psychological with the physiological which he equates with the...

A bus full of dispossessed, agitating farmers disappears on its way to Manila; and a few days later a rare, protected bird in a sanctuary...

Fei, a young migrant makes a living as a male sex worker in the big city. Three things upturn his life: he gets romantically involved...

Much is being written about Anamika Haksar’s GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON. It’s a film that did not find any takers on...

Over the years, Hong Kong action filmmakers have mastered the art of complex storytelling by negotiating parallel strands and multiple...

A sailor returns to his hometown after three years and discovers that his beloved has fallen in love with a rich man. This is enough of a...

An unknown young artist from the city arrives at a remote village by the sea to work on his sculpture in peace, but very soon enters into...

Before he became the 40th President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, Jose Pepe Mujica spent 12 years along with two of his comrades in...

Bansi said: “Satyajit didn’t know what to say during the making of Pather Panchali.” Satyajit chipped in: “Bansi would whisper to me: Say...

Twenty-five years ago, when I first read this unknown Swiss-German writer Friedrich Durrenmatt’s THE PLEDGE which he wrote in 1958, a...

Since the last 15 years or so, cinema from Israel, has been getting a lot more recognition globally – in terms of prestigious awards and...

When I read contemporary Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan’s famous novel VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH a few years ago, I was...

Satyabrata Ghosh Seldom a painter could finish a portrait or a landscape in one go. The same is true for a sculptor or an author, who...

Ten years after debuting with his impressive I.D. (2012, Hindi), Kamal KM, an FTII alumnus from the late 90s comes out with his second...

Joseph Losey was blacklisted by the McCarthy Committee and migrated to the UK where he continued to make films. But despite significant...

A teenager is forced to take up the responsibility of his siblings after the death of his father; he resorts to smuggling across the...

Tyrone Power plays an ambitious young man who works at a travelling carnival who rises up the social ladder through con, helped ably by...

Revisiting a master after decades opens up newer perspectives and reveals layers that may have escaped notice at first viewing. The...

“Dear Sister, Your image is dear to us. Take care of it; otherwise, we will.” The poster prescribing hijab for Algerian women outside a...

The year was 1981, when at the age of 15 I had my first tryst with Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel, “The Godfather” in my hometown of...