Filipino cineaste Mike De Leon’s Kisapmata (1981) is a family tragedy as well as a national allegory about patriarchy, possession, and death © by film critic Lalit Rao...

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Kantara, Chapter 1, press meet: A Legend at Land’s End A young man worked in Andheri West, Mumbai as an office boy, and, later, as a driver, in 2008. More recently, he started making films, in his...

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by Kate Elfatah, Critic, Indie Entertainment Media I recently had the opportunity to preview Bau: Artist at War, and I will admit to you that I was fully expecting this to be an intense, brutal...

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Asghar Farhadi has started filming his next feature 'Parallel Tales' in Paris with a cast including Isabelle Huppert, Vincent Cassel, Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Adam Bessa, and Catherine...

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  Cinema as the seventh art, at its most inspired, often turns the camera back upon itself, or upon its cousins in the performing arts, to explore how illusion and reality collide. From Mrinal...

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IDFA 2025: First competition titles unveiled • Nov 28, 2025 at 07:01 AM
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  Over 100 films are now in the IDFA 2025 selection, including titles in Short Competition, Signed, Best of Fests, Current Future, and Paradocs. We also reveal the winners of the Film Fund DocLab...

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  This year, the poster of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival takes on the shape of an epic. Created by Lithuanian illustrator Karolis Strautniekas, it transforms the iconic...

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Homebound, Review: A treasure found • Nov 28, 2025 at 07:01 AM
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Homebound, Review: A treasure found Neeraj Ghaywan took ten years to make his second feature, after the universally acclaimed Masaan. Much was expected from this tremendously gifted writer-director....

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Gravitas Ventures has announced the acquisition of the U.S. and Canada rights to Deny Gallagher’s debut feature film Americano, produced by New Jersey‑based Palomino Productions and starring Darren...

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  Jolly LL.B., Overview: Bikaner to Boston, in racing cars, and two advocates riding camels Land acquisition, for building roads, bridges, residential and commercial buildings, factories and...

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