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…
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75th Berlin International Film Festival – “Village Rockstars 2” Review
Seven years after the release of the critically acclaimed Village Rockstars (2017), filmmaker Rima Das revisits the vivid terrain of Kalardiya to continue the subtle narrative of Dhunu (Bhanita Das). Now on the cusp of adulthood, 17-year-old Dhunu confronts the complex realities of life in her small Assamese village, a world shaped by cyclical floods,…
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…
“Rewriting the Rules: Pioneering Indian Cinema after 1970” – Thu 3 Oct – Thu 12 Dec 2024 at the Barbican Cinema (UK)
Explore the impact of Indian Parallel Cinema, a groundbreaking post-colonial film movement, in Rewriting the Rules: Pioneering Indian Cinema after 1970. This three-month cinema season presents innovative films from the 1970s to the 1990s, known for their social and political commitment. The season is part of the Barbican’s major exhibition The Imaginary Institution of India:…
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