The aftermath of a decision hangs over Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar. The momentous decision of a couple to elope from Darbhanga had already been made and enacted before the film’s events. We witness the…
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The first thing that struck me while watching Saim Sadiq’s Joyland (2022) is the sheer sense of its characters’ dynamic alive-ness, to the unique and not-so-unique demands of their circumstances, how they…
Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) is back in the mountains again this 2022. After two consecutive years of going online due to the coronavirus, independent cinema is back for movie lovers across…
Aakash Chhabra’s short film, Mintgumri, has a palpable thread to it, moving from a yearning to connect or reconnect freshly, restoring of an old dynamic to its suggested ephemerality, each step impressing…
In Faraz Ali’s debut feature Shoebox, we find ourselves frequently confronted with questions relating to the reconfiguration of identity, the push-pull between holding on and letting go, and the very reserves left…
Famous fictional writer Arthur C. Clarke had this to say about borders, “The only way to define our limits is going beyond them.” Samarth Mahajan’s Borderlands (2021), an internationally co-produced documentary, goes…