Roots [2021]: ‘KVIFF’ Review – A Distinctively Minimalist Portrait of Landscape and its People
Sometimes the largest of human stories can be contained in the smallest (of space, of moments, etc). It’s what Tea…
The Sadness [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – An Interesting Gore Fest that Never Takes Off
It would be too straightforward to brand ‘The Sadness’ as a zombie film. Despite the lack of official word, the…
A Thousand Fires [2021]: ‘Locarno’ Review – A Bewitchingly Intimate Slice-of-Life Documentary
Documentaries’ sole purpose isn’t to convey certain information or to educate the audience. It can artfully put us into the…
Zero to Hero [2021]: ‘NYAFF’ review – A compassionate look at the Life of a Paralympic champion
Zero to Hero, based on the true story of So Wa-wai, a sprinter who raced for Hong Kong in five…
The River [2021] Locarno Review: An Overlong, Tedious Mystery Replete With Lazy Filmmaking
Lebanese writer-director Ghassan Salhab’s Locarno-premiered film The River (2021) is the last of his landscape trilogy, the previous two films…
Shankar’s Fairies [2021]: Locarno Review – A Beautifully Nostalgic Film Which Also Talks About Indian Class Structure
It’s 1962, the time when Indian borders were witnessing the Sino-Indian war. Bureaucrat IPS Rajesh Kumar Sinha is typically busy…
Raw (2016) – Julia’s fascination with Human body and Cannibalism
“Are you your body or is your body you? ” This is the central philosophy of French filmmaker Julia Ducournau…
Shershaah and Why the Formulaic Biopic Works
Given the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s viral selfie with top-tier Bollywood celebrities, including Karan Johar, Shershaah (2021) clearly seems to be strengthening the nationalist fabric of the Hindi film industry.