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

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...

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Aparna Ghosh
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Mrinal Sen
Rajen Tarafdar
Ritwik Ghatak
Satyajit Ray
Shahiduzzaman Selim
Zahidur Rahim Anjan

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...

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North-East India

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...

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Nikhil Mahajan
Suhrud Godbole
Vaibhav Khisti
Marathi

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...

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coastal Odisha
climate change
I am Kalam
Jalpari
Babloo Happy Hai
Kaun Kitney Paani Mein
Kadvi Hawa
Halkaa
hand-pump

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...

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Vaness Gusmao
trumpet
rock-band
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IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 29: Martina Sakova’s Summer Rebels is told through the eyes of an 11 year-old boy An 11-year-old boy defies his mother and runs away from his home in Germany to Slovakia, in...

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Eliás Vyskocil

IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 26: Past, Present and Future of Visualisation, according to Aditya Vikram Sengupta The shift from analogue to digital has changed the art of film-making, and also the mindset...

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OTT platforms
Rohit Gandhi
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Indira Gandhi Award
Rajkumar Hirani
Kolkata
National Film Awards
Mithun Chakraborty
Anil Kapoor
celluloid

IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 25: PCs of Kripal Kalita, Blessy Ipe Thomas Kripal Kalita’s Assamese language film, ‘The Bridge’, throws light on the devastations and hardships that floods bring to Assam...

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Padma Bhushan
100 Years of Chrysostom – A Biographical Film
Ahom King Chaolung Sukaphaa
ASSAM
Bishop Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma Valiya Metropolitan
Blessy Ipe Thomas
Brahmaputra
Documentary
floods
Guinness Record
Indian Panorama
The Bridge

IFFI 51, 16-24 January, 24: A dialogue on sound, with FTII Assoc. Prof. Madhu Apsara Sounds are crucial for a film to feel realistic for the audience. Sounds and dialogue must perfectly sync with...

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sound design in cinema
emotional movement
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