Dive bars, cheap restaurants, battered vintage cars, cigarettes, booze, accordions, portable radios, adorable dogs, bouquet of flowers, vinyl records, mixed music tracks (jazz, tango, rockabilly, etc), acerbic irony, deadpan wit, Bressonian minimalism,…
The MAMI Mumbai Film Festival has been known to shine a spotlight on fresh, new, and talented cinematic voices under their category ‘International Competition.’ 12 films directed by debutant filmmakers get a…
At a moral level, I don’t think we have any lesson to learn from Europe Ousmane Sembene Senegalese author, screenwriter, and director Ousmane Sembene was one of the first sub-Saharan African…
The unbridled energy, immediacy and meticulously visualized set-pieces in Youssef Chahine’s Cairo Station (aka ‘Bab el hadid’, 1958) could serve as the fine introduction point to one of Egypt’s most renowned and…
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…
“Visaranai” was awarded Amnesty International Italy’s “Cinema for Human Rights” Director Vetrimaran in his interview to ‘Hindu’ says “A film should enrich me as well as the audience. It should allow me…