Examining Space and Gender in Woman with a Movie Camera (2022): Atal Krishnan’s Woman with a Movie Camera (WWAMC) contextualizes how collectivism facilitates individual healing by fostering sisterhood and sharing of trauma.…
50 Years of Nirmalyam (1973): Most recently, the Malayalam film industry witnessed the pan-Indian scale commercial success of Vishnu Sasi Shankar’s Malikappuram (2022). Despite not having any of the industry’s A-list actors,…
On Women-Centric Buddy Movies in Malayalam Cinema: Films such as 22 Female Kottayam (2012), Udaharanam Sujatha (2017), and Sara’s (2021) are examples of New-Generational women-centric movies with nuanced narrative depictions of the…
A false fabrication of twisted words with alternate meanings intended to deceive someone for personal gain or what they believe to be the ‘greater good’: commonly referred to as a lie. How…
Vettapattikalum Oottakkarum (2022) IFFK Review: The feminist movement of the 1960s championed one of the most universally relevant slogans of all time – The personal is the political. This simple yet layered…
“I wanted to give it the feeling of a punk song.” This was director Milos Pušić’s response when asked about how he developed the visual language for Working Class Heroes (2022). And…