Published by Siraj Syed

Feb 05, 2019

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...

Diorama, New Delhi, January 2019: Films screened and their ratings

Diorama, New Delhi, January 2019: Films screened and their ratings

In cold New Delhi, the iconic Siri Fort was the venue for the first ever Diorama International Film Festival. What was once a single screen venue has burgeoned into a four screen complex, with the largest of them, Auditorium 1, able to accommodate approximately 2,000 persons. Audi 1 was sparingly used, and rightly so, because audiences were thin, to say the least. Of the other three, Auditorium 4 was largely used as the Film Market, while most screenings happened in Audi 2 and Audi 3.

I reached on the second day, and could watch films only from the evening of the 15^th. Moreover, I had to leave on the morning of the closing day, the 20^th, so I must have missed some more films. Nevertheless, here is the list of films I could catch, with my ratings.