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. @SirajHSyed
IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 35: Encapsulating BanglaDesh’s Liberation War is Meghmallar
“In Bangladesh, we call the 1971 Liberation War as the People’s War. My film Meghmallar is the story of a...
IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 34: Six hours to school; picking Prithviraj Das Gupta’s Green Blackberries
“They had to walk first, and then row the boat, and, later on, they will have to take some other...
IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 32: June is the tale of a troubled boy and a mysterious woman
“Healing is Beautiful. Through our film, we want to show that if there is a part of you that's broken, if there...
IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 31: Yesterday’s past and submerged villages are the theme for Nila Madhab Panda’s Kalira Atita
“I have seen with my own eyes, how, over the years, the sea had engulfed three...
IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 30: Indian première of We Still Have the Deep Black Night
Gustavo Galvao, Director of the film ‘We Still Have the Deep Black Night’, says that his movie is “a story of...
