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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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Our Friend, Review: Cancer kills, friendship lives • Feb 11, 2021 at 05:52 AM
by Siraj Syed

Our Friend, Review: Cancer kills, friendship lives Several things are going right for this American true story. Slice of life characters, casting, a lead actress who looks really beautiful enough to...

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Rob Simonsen
Joe Anderson
Colin PattonMatthew Teague
Brad Inglesby
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Casey Affleck
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt
Matthew Teague
Dakota Johnson
Jason Segel
Jake Owen
Gwendoline Christie
Cherry Jones
Denée Benton
Isabella Rice
Violet McGraw
Marielle Scott
Ahna O'Reilly
Azita Ghanizada
Sampley Barinaga
cancer
friendship
morbid
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 38: Pierre Filmon’s Long Time No See was realised after ten years, but took only five days to shoot • Feb 10, 2021 at 06:20 AM
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 38: Pierre Filmon’s Long Time No See was realised after ten years, but took only five days to shoot They were meeting after nine long years of separation. They had eighty...

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FESTIVALS
Fest. circuit
Almano Films
Anton Tchékhov
Bleus de Chine
brian de palma
Budd Schulberg
cinémathèque française
Daddy is Dead
Eïdo
LA FEMIS
Le silence
Le Studio Orlando
Les Épousailles
Martin Scorsese
Masque à Maman
Michael Cimino
Paul Hirsch
Pierre Rochefort
Prodigima Films
Robert Altman
Ronald Guttman
Steven Spielberg
Vilmos Zsigmond
woody allen
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 37: Acasa-The System and the eco-system • Feb 10, 2021 at 03:32 AM
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 37: Acasa-The System and the eco-system “For 20 years, they, the family with nine children, lived in harmony amidst nature, in a place which was long-forgotten though it was...

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Delta
bucharest
Radu Ciorniciuc
Lina Vdovi
Gică Enache
Casa Jurnalistului
Finland
Germany
Romania
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 33: Holy Rights and a Muslim woman marriage priest • Feb 09, 2021 at 02:32 PM
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 33: Holy Rights and a Muslim woman marriage priest “Holy Rights documents the movement against triple ‘talaaq’, it portrays Muslim women’s struggles to break free of...

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Bhopal
Farha Khatun
Safia
Sharia
triple talaaq
Qazi
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 36: Gandhi and the power of the powerless • Feb 09, 2021 at 06:41 AM
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 36: Gandhi and the power of the powerless The IFFI 51 Indian Panorama Non Feature film 'Ahimsa - Gandhi: The Power of the Powerless' decodes the power of non-violence and why...

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George Floyd
Ramesh Sharma
Yamini Upadhye
Indian Panorama
non-feature
Human Rights
non-violence or non-existence
The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl
New Delhi Times
Ahimsa
Solidarity
POLAND
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