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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. 

 
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IFFI 52, 06: Campion’s The Power of the Dog to be mid-fest film • Nov 18, 2021 at 04:41 AM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI 52, 06: Campion’s The Power of the Dog to be mid-fest film New Zealander Jane Campion, who has won international recognition with such well-crafted films like Sweetie, An Angel at My Table and...

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Sweetie
The Piano
An Angel at my Table
Benedict Cumberbatch
Kirsten Dunst
Thomas Savage
montana
Farewell My Concubine
The Bright Star
Australian Film Television and Radio School
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IFFI 52, 05: Lifetime Achievement Award for Szabó, Scorsese; Saura’s The King of all the World, opening film • Nov 12, 2021 at 04:24 PM
by Siraj Syed

IFFI 52, 05: Lifetime Achievement Award for Szabó, Scorsese; Saura’s The King of all the World, opening film Legendary Hungarian film-maker István Szabó and veteran Hollywood figure Martin Scorsese...

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Amazon Prime
Andrei Konchalovsky
Ashwini Iyer Tiwari
BÉLA TARR
Bertrand Tavernier
Brazil
Breakpoint
BRICS Film Festival
Buddhadeb Dasgupta
Carlos Saura
china
Christopher Plummer
Dilip Kumar
Dr. No.
Gobelins l'ecole de l'image
india
james bond
Jane Campion
Jean-Claude Carriere SEan Connery
jean-Paul belmondo
Leander Paes
Mahesh Bhupathi
Martin Scorsese
Netflix
Nitesh Tiwari
Rajinikanth
Russia
Sanchari Vijay
Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award
Saurav Dey
Sony Liv
South Africa
Sumit Purohit
Sumitra Bhave
Surekha Sikri
The King of all the World
The Power of the Dog
Voot
Zee5
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Ripples, Review: Subtly, gently • Nov 23, 2021 at 12:17 PM
by Siraj Syed

Ripples, Review: Subtly, gently Ripples is a film about Muslim women of Xinjiang, who now live in Yiwu, and how they miss their homeland. While China is universally acknowledged as a military and...

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Afghanistan
Benoît Lelièvere
Chinese
Gansu
Huaqing Jin
Jacqueline Martin
Jimmy Buffet
kashmir
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Mongolia
muslim
Qinghai
Russia
Tajikistan
tibet
Uighur
Ürümqi
Uyghur
WeChat
Willie Nelson
Wulumuqi
Xinjiang
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India’s Ministry of Tourism holds Seminar on Film Tourism • Nov 09, 2021 at 04:43 PM
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India’s Ministry of Tourism holds Seminar on Film Tourism India's Ministry of Tourism in association with Ministry of Information & Broadcasting organised a Symposium on Film Tourism at Taj Land’s...

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Arvind Singh
National Film Development Corporation
international film festival of india
Chandra
B R Chopra Express
Betaab
Tawang
Madhuri Dixit
Ganji Kamala Vardhana Rao
Additional Director General
Ministry of Tourism
Ms. Rupinder Brar
Dhanpreet Kaur
Film Facilitation Office
National Film Development Corporation of India
Vikramjit Roy
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IFFI 52, 04: List of all 24 Indian Panorama films and 20 Documentaries announced • Nov 12, 2021 at 02:09 PM
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IFFI 52, 04: List of all 24 Indian Panorama films and 20 Documentaries announced Semkhor, the first ever film to be made in the Dimasa language of North-East India, will be the inaugural feature...

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Anupama Vinod
Asim Bose
Gyan Sahay
Hemendra Bhatia
Jayashree Bhattacharya
Makhonmani Mongsaba
Malay Ray
Manjunath T.S.
Parag Chaphekar
Pramod Pawar
Prashantu Mohapatra
Rajendra Hegde
Rajendra Singh ‘Babu”
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