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Siraj Syed

Siraj Syed is the India Correspondent for FilmFestivals.com and a member of FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics. He is a Film Festival Correspondent since 1976, Film-critic since 1969 and a Feature-writer since 1970. He is also an acting and dialogue coach. 

 

IFFI 52, 020: Covid and a crow IFFI 52 Indian Panorama Film Teen Adhyay seeks to light a candle of hope in the darkness, following COVID-19. It is based on the optimistic dictum: “However deep the...

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Suprabha Sahoo
Manish Pingley
Teen Adhyay
Subash Sahoo
Kaminey
NH10
Neerja
Tumhari Sulu
Suvir Nath
Utpatti (Birth)
Vipatti (Calamity)
Chakra (Continuity)

IFFI 52, 021: Sainbari massacres missing from history books Why is the battle of Sainbari not in our history books, where 15,000 people were killed in just one night, was the question posed by the...

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bangladesh
Battle of Buxar
Battle of Panipat
CFBC
Chaudhuri
East Bengal
Indian Panorama
Jallianwala Bagh
politically motivated mass murders

IFFI 52, 019: Life in post-Soviet Union Ukraine “My film, Rhino, is very violent and tough. I wanted to show the life in Post-Soviet Ukraine during the ‘wild’ 1990s through this film,” said director...

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Crimean Oblast
Kyiv
Moscow.
Oleh Sentsov
Rhino
Simferopol
Ukrainian SSR
Veronica Welch

IFFI 52, 018: Charlotte is about an Argentinian actress in search of an aspirational future She shared a memorable past with the director who launched her into the world of cinema. Upon the...

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Paraguay
Taiwan
Simon Franco
Lena Fernandez
Universidad del Cine (FUC)
José Martínez Suárez
Guaraní
FIC
Gramado
Not So Modern Times

IFFI 52, 017: Rafaela actress Judith Rodriguez found IFFI magical and inspiring “Watching the world premiere of our movie with viewers yesterday was an awe inspiring experience which will remain...

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dominican republic
Hony Astrella
spanish
Slumdog Millionaire
Edward Diaz