Sometimes the LGBTQ community’s feelings are not hurt by open hostility, but by something harder to face: silence. Harm doesn’t always come from direct cruelty – often, it comes from people choosing not to see or engage. In many cultures, especially within traditional families, a person can feel really alone even among people who love…
Category: Indian Cinema
82nd Venice Film Festival: In Conversation with Anuparna Roy, Director of “Songs of Forgotten Trees”
At the 82nd Venice Film Festival, Anuparna Roy’s Songs of Forgotten Trees was a rare kind of debut, one that challanges the ways Indian cinema has historically positioned women: not as symbols or accessories to a male narrative, but as living, breathing individuals. Her film places women firmly at the centre and lets them be…
A Bollywood Screenlife Drama Hit: “CTRL” Review
It was a rocky start. While The Collingswood Story (2002) is considered the very first of the genre, “screenlife” only became a spottable term in the mid-2010s, with Unfriended (2014) being one of the first “big” productions to popularise the genre. Though such a title didn’t receive much acclaim, it testified to the genre’s great…
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