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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 50: Homage to Bernardo Bertolucci Bertolucci, who was born in 1941, passed away at last year at the age of 77. He has been acclaimed for two of his most important films--Last Tango in Paris and...

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Last Tango in Paris
Me and You
The Last Emperor
Cinematheque Française
The Dreamers
Eva Green
Michael Pitt
Louis Garrel
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pu Yi
The Conformist
Alberto Moravia
The Grim Reaper

IFFI 50: British film-maker Ken Loach to have a Retrospective at IFFI 2019 Two times Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach is widely acclaimed across international cinema as an independent film-maker and...

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Sorry We Missed You
I-Daniel Blake
Poor Cow
Navigators
Cathy Come Home
kafka
CATCH 22
Kes
Riff-Raff
Fatherland
Sweet Sixteen
Raining Stones

IFFI 50: Russia to be Country of Focus, with seven films Every year, IFFI features a Country of Focus that brings out the cinematic excellence and contributions of that particular country. In its...

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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer
Abigail by Aleksandr Boguslavskiy
Acid by Alexander Gorchilin
Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov
Great poetry by Aleksandr Lungin
Once in Trubchevsk by Larissa Sadilova
Why don’t you just die! by Kirill Sokolov

Prithvi Festival 2019: Bone of Contention is a motor-mouth hysterical farce, as the crow flies A comedy is what you would automatically expect from a theatre group that calls itself FATS theARTS,...

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Faezeh Jalali
J.B. Petit
Shikhandi
Bharat Natyam
Prajesh Kashyap
Sujay Jadhav
Dwivedi
Photocopy
rap
YZ
Prithvi Theatre
Parsee
muslim
hindu
christian
crow
Irani
Karan Desai
Abhishek Deswal and Prajesh Kashyap. Nidhi Bisht
Niketan Sharma
Muskkaan Jaferi Meher Acharia-Dar
Zinnia Ranji
Fatema Arif
Gillian Pinto
Kristin D’Souza
Shubham Chaudhary
Abhishek Chauhan
Junaid Khan
Sunny Abraham
Reyhaneh Jabbari

Bala, Review: Haireditory and dark humour Two films in rapid succession about hair loss are about as rare as a new lock of hair sprouting on a bald pate. Whereas Ujda Chaman had the relatively...

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Ayushmann Khurrana
Bhumi Pednekar
Instagram
TikTok
Sunita Rajwar
Urdu
Deepika Chikhlia
The Family Man
Amazon Prime
Dhirendra Kumar Gautam
Vijay Raaz
Niren Bhatt
Seema Pahwa
Saurabh Shukla
Abhishek Bannerjee
Javed Jaaferi
Yami Gautam
Ravi Shankar Muppa
Kannada
Amar Kaushik
Kanpur
Lucknow
Sunny Singh Nijjar
Maanvi Gagroo