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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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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, VI: Life after Ghatak, and breaking mindsets • Dec 04, 2016 at 08:11 PM
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, VI: Life after Ghatak, and breaking mindsets Federation of Film Societies of India continues to champion the cause of film culture and appreciation by not only running...

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Blue of China
chekhov
Close Encounters with Vilgot Zsigmond
Espousals
FFSI
first
IDPA
K Sera Sera
manipur
Meena Longjam
Nabarupa Bhattacharjee
Open Forum
Pierre Filmon
Rajeev Shinde
Rama Vij
Ritwick Ghatak
Rüdiger Vogler
Senthil Rajan
silence
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, V: And the Oscar for restoring classics goes to…AMPAS! • Nov 30, 2016 at 07:58 PM
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, V: And the Oscar for restoring classics goes to…AMPAS! American body Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is best known for presenting the annual awards,...

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Sid Ganis
Oscars
Alam Ara
AMPAS
Satyajit Ray
Apu
Pather Panchali
Robert Wise
West Side Story
Maureen O'Hara
Tessa Idlewine
Apur Sanasar
Aparajito
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, IV: BRICS by bricks • Nov 30, 2016 at 04:58 PM
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, IV: BRICS by bricks A film festival, with a competition section, was held in September, in New Delhi, preceding the Brazil, India China, Russia and South Africa (BRICS)...

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Ram Gopal Bajaj
Shilabhadra
Nalanda
Sonu Sood
Mandana Karimi
Harsha
Neha Sharma
Kumari
Ali Fazal
Jayaram
Rajesh Khera
Simharsami
Prithvi Zutshi
Juewu
Sanjay Gurbaxani
Mingxian
Karim Hajee
BRICS
14+
Russia
Andrei Zaitsev/Zaytsev
Between Valleys
Brazil
Philippe Barcinski
Kalushi
South Africa
Mandla Dube
Xuan Zang
Xuanzang
Xuan Zhang
china
india
Jianqi Huo
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, III: Abbasolutely wonderful cinema of Kiarostami • Dec 01, 2016 at 12:10 PM
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*On a snowy morning/I run out/hatless and coatless/as happy as a child--a brief poem by Abbas Kiarostami. *I believe the films of Kiarostami are extraordinary--Akira Kurosawa. Every year, the...

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76 minutes and 15 seconds
Akira Kurosawa
Certified Copy
Konrad Wolf
like someone in love
Roberto Rossellini
Seifollah Samadian
Shirin
Take Home
Ten
Through the Olive Trees
Where is the Friend's Home?
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, II, Andrzej Wajda’s lingering Afterimage • Nov 30, 2016 at 04:26 PM
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Siraj Syed’s IFFI 2016 diary, II, Andrzej Wajda’s lingering Afterimage Six of Poland’s much raved and long-revered director Andrzej Wajda’s films were on display at IFFI 2016. In a fitting tribute...

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Afterimage
Andrzej Wajda
Ashes and Diamonds
KATYN
Lech Walesa
Man of Iron
Man of Marble
POLAND
The Maids of Wilko
The Promised Land
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