The 75 Best Movies of the 2010s Decade The decade of the 2010s was a wild cinematic ride, taking me on a coming-of-age journey unlike any other. It all began with a…
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Hailing from Amritsar, Punjab, Shubham Sharma’s meticulously shot short film, Even Fake Flowers Have Scent On Happy Days (2020) about a smart young man, haunted by his loneliness and the past, decides…
Praveen Morchhale’s beautifully nuanced third feature Widow of Silence (2018) opens with a mute, passive old woman getting tied to a chair in a small, sunlit room. The younger woman after tying…
25 Must-See Films at the JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, 2017 Check out the 25 Films That We Recommend You to Watch At MAMI 2018 Fueled by every possible genre of cinematic…
Where Is the Friend’s Home? Analysis: Experiencing Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami’s films is similar to witnessing a great poet in action. The poet breathes life to the words, driven by intuition and…
“When spite comes along, Art dons a veil” This quote by Hossein Sabzian, the protagonist of the film, perfectly defines the subject the film deals with, about an art lover hiding under a veil because he fears he may offend its audience, and how it also defines the everyday suppression of creative freedom in Iranian Cinema. Cinema doesn’t guarantee comforting lies all the time, in fact most great films are about harsh truths but to pass it off under the most critical of eyes, it needs to wear the veil of deception. In Abbas Kiarostami’s own words, he explains that cinema is a series of lies, said to put in front of us the greater truth.