Mami Select: Filmed on iPhone is an initiative undertaken by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami) to make short films shot on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. The five filmmakers chosen for this virtuous deed were Prateek Vats, Saurav Rai, Faraz Ali, Archana Atul Phadke, and Saumyananda Sahi. These filmmakers were mentored by veteran filmmakers like Vishal Bhardwaj, Vikramaditya Motwane and Rohan Sippy. The five short films are tales of individuals who deal with the challenging lives of the marginalized, the vulnerable, the impoverished, the alienated, and the troubled. From the confines of a garment factory to the narrow alleys of a daily market in a rural town to the snow-clad locales of Kashmir to the dunes of Rajasthan to the bustling metropolis, they present vivid characters whose individual problems are no less vital and compelling. Small errors snowball into unintended and unimaginable consequences. As a result, the principal characters...
- 5/10/2024
- by Dipankar Sarkar
- Talking Films
BAFTA Circles Calendar
The British Academy has confirmed the date of the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, which will now be held on Sunday February. 16.
As per recent scheduling arrangements, the awards — arguably the biggest film awards outside the U.S. — takes place two weeks before the Oscars on March 2, 2025. Regular film festival attendees may note that the BAFTA awards will, once again, be held during the Berlinale, set to run February 13-23, with there likely to be a spike in industry professionals flying back to London on the morning of Feb. 16.
The full timeline and eligibility details for the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards will be announced in due course. Voting will take place over three rounds: longlisting, nominations and winners, by the academy’s global voting film membership which comprises more than 7,800 industry creatives.
The 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, which saw “Oppenheimer” dominate with wins for best film, director and actor, were watched...
The British Academy has confirmed the date of the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards, which will now be held on Sunday February. 16.
As per recent scheduling arrangements, the awards — arguably the biggest film awards outside the U.S. — takes place two weeks before the Oscars on March 2, 2025. Regular film festival attendees may note that the BAFTA awards will, once again, be held during the Berlinale, set to run February 13-23, with there likely to be a spike in industry professionals flying back to London on the morning of Feb. 16.
The full timeline and eligibility details for the 2025 BAFTA Film Awards will be announced in due course. Voting will take place over three rounds: longlisting, nominations and winners, by the academy’s global voting film membership which comprises more than 7,800 industry creatives.
The 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, which saw “Oppenheimer” dominate with wins for best film, director and actor, were watched...
- 4/19/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Bhutan-set political satire ’The Monk And The Gun’ takes festival’s audience award
Sarvnik Kaur’s documentary Against The Tide has won the top prize, the Golden Gateway Award, at the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival.
The documentary, which world premiered at Sundance, follows two fishers and friends from Mumbai’s Koli community pursuing their livelihoods by different means.
Lockdown drama Bahadur - The Brave by Diwa Shah, which played in San Sebastian’s New Directors strand this year, won the Silver Gateway Award.
Kanu Behl’s drama Agra, which world premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year, won the special jury award.
Sarvnik Kaur’s documentary Against The Tide has won the top prize, the Golden Gateway Award, at the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival.
The documentary, which world premiered at Sundance, follows two fishers and friends from Mumbai’s Koli community pursuing their livelihoods by different means.
Lockdown drama Bahadur - The Brave by Diwa Shah, which played in San Sebastian’s New Directors strand this year, won the Silver Gateway Award.
Kanu Behl’s drama Agra, which world premiered in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this year, won the special jury award.
- 11/6/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Sarvnik Kaur’s documentary “Against the Tide” has won the Golden Gateway Award at the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival. The film previously won awards at Sundance, Sydney and Seattle and best documentary at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards on the same evening as Mumbai.
Diwa Shah’s San Sebastian winner “Bahadur: The Brave” received Mumbai’s Silver Gateway Award. The festival’s Gender Sensitivity Award, for a film that challenges gender stereotypes and norms, which is decided by India’s Film Critics Guild, was won by Leesa Gazi’s “Barir Naam Shahana” (“A House Named Shahana”). The Special Jury Award went to Kanu Behl’s “Agra,” which premiered at Cannes earlier this year.
The Rashid Irani Young Critics’ Choice Award, a program created by the festival to nurture young writers on cinema, was won by Shahrukhkhan Chavada’s “Kayo Kayo Colour?” Dominic Sangma’s Locarno title “Rimdogittanga” (“Rapture”) won the Netpac Award.
Diwa Shah’s San Sebastian winner “Bahadur: The Brave” received Mumbai’s Silver Gateway Award. The festival’s Gender Sensitivity Award, for a film that challenges gender stereotypes and norms, which is decided by India’s Film Critics Guild, was won by Leesa Gazi’s “Barir Naam Shahana” (“A House Named Shahana”). The Special Jury Award went to Kanu Behl’s “Agra,” which premiered at Cannes earlier this year.
The Rashid Irani Young Critics’ Choice Award, a program created by the festival to nurture young writers on cinema, was won by Shahrukhkhan Chavada’s “Kayo Kayo Colour?” Dominic Sangma’s Locarno title “Rimdogittanga” (“Rapture”) won the Netpac Award.
- 11/4/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
After the impressive success of the BAFTA Breakthrough India programme in 2021 and 2022, BAFTA is once again launching the scheme for a third year. Applications open today until 5 July, and the programme is open to creatives from across the film, games and television industries nationally, as well as those working in the UK and the US.
This year also marks Netflix’s third year supporting BAFTA Breakthrough in India and its fourth year in the UK and US.
BAFTA Breakthrough aims to identify and nurture emerging talent from around the world and equip them with the resources they need to develop their skills and progress in their chosen field. First launched in the UK ten years ago, BAFTA Breakthrough is one of the arts charity’s flagship talent schemes, with over 200 careers developed and accelerated to-date.
Through this initiative, BAFTA Breakthrough India will once again identify and celebrate Indian talent by...
This year also marks Netflix’s third year supporting BAFTA Breakthrough in India and its fourth year in the UK and US.
BAFTA Breakthrough aims to identify and nurture emerging talent from around the world and equip them with the resources they need to develop their skills and progress in their chosen field. First launched in the UK ten years ago, BAFTA Breakthrough is one of the arts charity’s flagship talent schemes, with over 200 careers developed and accelerated to-date.
Through this initiative, BAFTA Breakthrough India will once again identify and celebrate Indian talent by...
- 5/12/2023
- by Editorial Desk
- GlamSham
The Oscar® nominated HBO Documentary Film All That Breathes, from director Shaunak Sen (“Cities
of Sleep”), debuts Tuesday, February 7 (9:00-10:40 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Synopsis: All That Breathes follows two brothers who devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. The film explores the connection between the kites and the Muslim brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.
Awards: Hailed as “one of the best movies of 2022” by the New York Times, All That Breathes premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film...
of Sleep”), debuts Tuesday, February 7 (9:00-10:40 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Synopsis: All That Breathes follows two brothers who devote their lives to the quixotic effort of protecting the black kite, a majestic bird of prey essential to the ecosystem of New Delhi that has been falling from the sky at alarming rates. Amid environmental toxicity and social unrest, the ‘kite brothers’ spend day and night caring for the creatures in their makeshift avian basement hospital. The film explores the connection between the kites and the Muslim brothers who help them return to the skies, offering a mesmerizing chronicle of inter-species coexistence.
Awards: Hailed as “one of the best movies of 2022” by the New York Times, All That Breathes premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film...
- 1/25/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Winner of the New Currents Award at this year’s Busan, “Shivamma” is still continuing its festival run in 2023, while expected to premiere in India in 2024.
Shivamma is screening at Black Movie
Shivamma is a poor, middle-aged woman who is trying to support her family, including a bed-ridden husband, a not so bright daughter who is in an age to get married and a brattish son, by selling the energy drink Nuracle to whomever she can. Obviously a pyramid scheme, the selling of a liquid with dubious results remains the only source of income and hope for her, with the company’s slogan, ‘I will do it!’ having become her own motto. The difficulties she has to face, however, mostly having to do with money, pile up, and her job becomes more and more difficult. She keeps on though.
Jaishankar Aryar directs a film that looks like a documentary,...
Shivamma is screening at Black Movie
Shivamma is a poor, middle-aged woman who is trying to support her family, including a bed-ridden husband, a not so bright daughter who is in an age to get married and a brattish son, by selling the energy drink Nuracle to whomever she can. Obviously a pyramid scheme, the selling of a liquid with dubious results remains the only source of income and hope for her, with the company’s slogan, ‘I will do it!’ having become her own motto. The difficulties she has to face, however, mostly having to do with money, pile up, and her job becomes more and more difficult. She keeps on though.
Jaishankar Aryar directs a film that looks like a documentary,...
- 1/22/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Updated with full winners’ list and more details, including a leading three awards for Fire of Love: All That Breathes and All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — the two frontrunners for best documentary at the Oscars — split the top awards at the 16th annual Cinema Eye Honors in New York tonight.
Filmmaker Laura Poitras won Outstanding Direction for her work on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. But it was All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen, that earned Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, the Cinema Eye Honors’ equivalent to the Oscars’ Best Documentary Feature (see full list of winners below).
Sen’s film examines the work of Nadeem and Saud – two brothers in Delhi, India – who have devoted their energies to rehabilitating birds of prey like the black kite, which suffer in the polluted air of the metropolis.
“I was just asking Nadeem today how many birds he thinks they would have saved so far,...
Filmmaker Laura Poitras won Outstanding Direction for her work on All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. But it was All That Breathes, directed by Shaunak Sen, that earned Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, the Cinema Eye Honors’ equivalent to the Oscars’ Best Documentary Feature (see full list of winners below).
Sen’s film examines the work of Nadeem and Saud – two brothers in Delhi, India – who have devoted their energies to rehabilitating birds of prey like the black kite, which suffer in the polluted air of the metropolis.
“I was just asking Nadeem today how many birds he thinks they would have saved so far,...
- 1/13/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Filmmaker Shaunak Sen loves to look at his filthy polluted home, Delhi, through different prisms. His graduate school feature “City of Sleep” (2016) chronicled multiple sleep journeys, from soft beds to hard pavements. With his next, “All That Breathes,” he took his cameras from Delhi’s garbage-strewn streets to the murky skies, where hawk-like black kites circle slowly, and all too often, plummet to the earth. “That film was about looking at the city on a horizontal axis,” he said over Zoom. “This was looking at the city through a vertical axis.”
The reason that “All That Breathes” was picked up by HBO Documentary Films at Sundance 2022 (where it won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize) and included in all the top documentary awards groups’ early voting is that the filmmaker and his cinematographers embraced the tools of big-budget filmmaking: rack focus, pans, dollies, crane shots and long single takes. In short,...
The reason that “All That Breathes” was picked up by HBO Documentary Films at Sundance 2022 (where it won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize) and included in all the top documentary awards groups’ early voting is that the filmmaker and his cinematographers embraced the tools of big-budget filmmaking: rack focus, pans, dollies, crane shots and long single takes. In short,...
- 10/29/2022
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
HBO Documentary Films has bought worldwide television rights for Cannes Special Screenings title “All That Breathes.”
The film is the only Sundance movie to screen as part of Cannes’ Official Selection this year — a feat all the more impressive given Cannes is not known for its documentary programming. In Park City, the film picked up the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Directed by Shaunak Sen (“Cities of Sleep”), “All That Breathes” follows two brothers who run a bird hospital dedicated to rescuing injured black kites, which are a staple in the skies of New Delhi, India.
In one of the world’s most populated cities, where cows, rats, monkeys, frogs and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these creatures, which fall daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between the family...
The film is the only Sundance movie to screen as part of Cannes’ Official Selection this year — a feat all the more impressive given Cannes is not known for its documentary programming. In Park City, the film picked up the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Directed by Shaunak Sen (“Cities of Sleep”), “All That Breathes” follows two brothers who run a bird hospital dedicated to rescuing injured black kites, which are a staple in the skies of New Delhi, India.
In one of the world’s most populated cities, where cows, rats, monkeys, frogs and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these creatures, which fall daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between the family...
- 5/20/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has named ten emerging talents from across the Indian film, gaming and television industries that will participate in the 2022 edition of its BAFTA Breakthrough India initiative supported by Netflix.
The 2022 contingent includes writer-director Ajitpal Singh; composer Alokananda Dasgupta (“Sacred Games”), writer-director Arati Kadav (“Cargo”), producer Mathivanan Rajendran (“Nirvana Inn”), writer-director Leena Manimekalai, game director Nakul Verma (“In My Shadow”), writer-director Prateek Vats (“Eeb Allay Ooo!”), cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi (“Eeb Allay Ooo!”), writer Shubham (“Eeb Allay Ooo!”) and performer Sumukhi Suresh (“Pushpavalli”).
The talents were selected by a jury consisting of BAFTA-winning composer A.R. Rahman, editor and writer Apurva Asrani, actors Anupam Kher and Ratna Pathak Shah, games producer Charu Desodt, Amazon India head Gaurav Gandhi, Netflix India content chief Monika Shergill, producers Siddharth Roy Kapur and Guneet Monga, BAFTA chair Krishnendu Majumdar, GOQii CEO Vishal Gondal and filmmaker Shonali Bose.
During the program,...
The 2022 contingent includes writer-director Ajitpal Singh; composer Alokananda Dasgupta (“Sacred Games”), writer-director Arati Kadav (“Cargo”), producer Mathivanan Rajendran (“Nirvana Inn”), writer-director Leena Manimekalai, game director Nakul Verma (“In My Shadow”), writer-director Prateek Vats (“Eeb Allay Ooo!”), cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi (“Eeb Allay Ooo!”), writer Shubham (“Eeb Allay Ooo!”) and performer Sumukhi Suresh (“Pushpavalli”).
The talents were selected by a jury consisting of BAFTA-winning composer A.R. Rahman, editor and writer Apurva Asrani, actors Anupam Kher and Ratna Pathak Shah, games producer Charu Desodt, Amazon India head Gaurav Gandhi, Netflix India content chief Monika Shergill, producers Siddharth Roy Kapur and Guneet Monga, BAFTA chair Krishnendu Majumdar, GOQii CEO Vishal Gondal and filmmaker Shonali Bose.
During the program,...
- 3/9/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Another absolute highlight of the program of this year’s Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) is “Aise Hee” by Kislay. With his first feature film the Indian director tells the touching story of an elderly woman. The co-writer of Ivan Ayr acclaimed feature “Soni”, developed here on his own a truly mesmerizing drama.
Mrs. Sharma just lost her husband to whom she was married for over 50 years. Finally she is able to decide for herself, she thinks, and she politely refuses the offer of her daughter to move in with her. There is nothing against it, that the still vital and independent woman keeps living in her own house. But this is not the opinion of her son who lives next door to her. As a radio speaker he doesn’t earn very much. He struggles more and more to make ends meet and speculates on renting out...
Mrs. Sharma just lost her husband to whom she was married for over 50 years. Finally she is able to decide for herself, she thinks, and she politely refuses the offer of her daughter to move in with her. There is nothing against it, that the still vital and independent woman keeps living in her own house. But this is not the opinion of her son who lives next door to her. As a radio speaker he doesn’t earn very much. He struggles more and more to make ends meet and speculates on renting out...
- 5/21/2021
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest co-production market, has revealed 21 eclectic projects from several countries and in a welter of languages, for its 2021 online edition.
The selected filmmakers will pitch their projects virtually to a curated audience of Indian and international producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents at an open pitch session. This year, Film Bazaar has also collaborated with the French Embassy in India which will be sponsoring the French Institute Award for one market project.
As is the usual case, the projects are a mix of festival favorites and debutants.
From India, Berlinale title “Eeb Allay Ooo!” editor Tanushree Das and Rotterdam title “Nasir” cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi make their directorial debuts with Bengali-language “Baksho Bondi” (aka “How Long Is Tomorrow?”), produced by Naren Chandavarkar (Rotterdam Fipresci winner “The Bangle Seller”); Tamil-language “Bommainayagi” (aka “Queen Doll”) by debutant Shanawaz Nizamudeen, produced by Pa. Ranjith, director of Rajinikanth...
The selected filmmakers will pitch their projects virtually to a curated audience of Indian and international producers, distributors, festival programmers, financiers and sales agents at an open pitch session. This year, Film Bazaar has also collaborated with the French Embassy in India which will be sponsoring the French Institute Award for one market project.
As is the usual case, the projects are a mix of festival favorites and debutants.
From India, Berlinale title “Eeb Allay Ooo!” editor Tanushree Das and Rotterdam title “Nasir” cinematographer Saumyananda Sahi make their directorial debuts with Bengali-language “Baksho Bondi” (aka “How Long Is Tomorrow?”), produced by Naren Chandavarkar (Rotterdam Fipresci winner “The Bangle Seller”); Tamil-language “Bommainayagi” (aka “Queen Doll”) by debutant Shanawaz Nizamudeen, produced by Pa. Ranjith, director of Rajinikanth...
- 12/22/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Line-up includes new projects from Onir, Anjali Menon, Shyam Bora and Haobam Paban Kumar.
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), has announced the 21 projects selected for the Co-production Market (Cpm) of its 2020 edition, which will take place online next month after being postponed from its usual November slot.
The line-up includes projects in 17 South Asian languages originating in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as co-productions with Canada, China, Netherlands and France.
International collaborations include Onir’s We Are, co-produced by India’s Anticlock Films and Canada’s Fae Pictures; India-Netherlands collaboration Dengue,...
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corp (Nfdc), has announced the 21 projects selected for the Co-production Market (Cpm) of its 2020 edition, which will take place online next month after being postponed from its usual November slot.
The line-up includes projects in 17 South Asian languages originating in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, as well as co-productions with Canada, China, Netherlands and France.
International collaborations include Onir’s We Are, co-produced by India’s Anticlock Films and Canada’s Fae Pictures; India-Netherlands collaboration Dengue,...
- 12/21/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
After its premiere at this year’s Berlinale, the Indian social drama “Eeb Allay Ooo!” by Prateek Vats was screened in the program of the We Are One film festival. The movie was presented by the Mumbai Film Festival.
The film addresses topics such as guest workers and family affiliation and gives an interesting insight into Indian customs, professional hierarchies and the country’s legal system.
Anjani moves to New Delhi to live with his sister to support her and earn money. But finding a job turns out to be rather difficult and so he is happy when his brother-in-law gets him a job as a civil servant. But this is more exhausting than expected. Monkeys have made themselves comfortable in the city. They are regarded as half gods and must not be hurt. But around the government building they are not wanted. That’s why there are the monkey expellers.
The film addresses topics such as guest workers and family affiliation and gives an interesting insight into Indian customs, professional hierarchies and the country’s legal system.
Anjani moves to New Delhi to live with his sister to support her and earn money. But finding a job turns out to be rather difficult and so he is happy when his brother-in-law gets him a job as a civil servant. But this is more exhausting than expected. Monkeys have made themselves comfortable in the city. They are regarded as half gods and must not be hurt. But around the government building they are not wanted. That’s why there are the monkey expellers.
- 6/10/2020
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
It’s a truism that satire is the sharpest way of critiquing society’s problems. Make an audience laugh as well as think, and you’ve hit your mark. The trick is knowing how deep to dig while finding that perfect balance of sly humor with unforced, sharp-eyed commentary.
Prateek Vats’ unpretentious debut “Eeb Allay Ooo!” largely gets the equation right, using the amusing antics of a guy hired to shoo away New Delhi’s pesky monkeys to address the capital’s toxic power dynamics. It could however have gone a bit further by using boisterous scenes showing National Day celebrations not just as a soft-pedaled push against the Modi government’s polarizing nationalist rhetoric but a more pointed jab at the ruling party’s poisonous propaganda. Instead, Shubham’s generally praiseworthy script errs on the side of caution, focusing on the protagonist’s personal exasperation and wrapping it up with an ambiguous final scene.
Prateek Vats’ unpretentious debut “Eeb Allay Ooo!” largely gets the equation right, using the amusing antics of a guy hired to shoo away New Delhi’s pesky monkeys to address the capital’s toxic power dynamics. It could however have gone a bit further by using boisterous scenes showing National Day celebrations not just as a soft-pedaled push against the Modi government’s polarizing nationalist rhetoric but a more pointed jab at the ruling party’s poisonous propaganda. Instead, Shubham’s generally praiseworthy script errs on the side of caution, focusing on the protagonist’s personal exasperation and wrapping it up with an ambiguous final scene.
- 5/30/2020
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
The understated, deeply humane approach director Arun Karthick takes in addressing the heinous anti-Muslim rhetoric infecting Indian politics today proves far more powerful than any larger-scale drama one can imagine. “ Set over the course of one day in Karthick’s hometown of Coimbatore in western Tamil Nadu, the story is a slice-of-life look at a Muslim fabric shop salesman steeped in an ever more toxic atmosphere of Hindu nationalism. Beautifully shot in a 4:3 ratio with a Super 16mm lens to get a notable depth of saturated color, “Nasir” is a sleeper gem deserving of significant festival play.
Karthick employs such a delicate structure, focusing on the mundanity of daily life while carefully introducing discordant elements, that the brutal finale comes as a shock even though he’s been building up to this practically from the beginning. He creates an atmosphere of mutual support and affection between Nasir (theater director...
Karthick employs such a delicate structure, focusing on the mundanity of daily life while carefully introducing discordant elements, that the brutal finale comes as a shock even though he’s been building up to this practically from the beginning. He creates an atmosphere of mutual support and affection between Nasir (theater director...
- 2/9/2020
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Independent Cinema The 79-minute film won the Netpac Award for the best Asian film premiering at the festival.Tnm StaffPicture courtesy: Samir Sarkar Tamil Nadu-based indie filmmaker Arun Karthick’s Nasir has won the Netpac Award for the best Asian film premiering at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (Iffr), 2020. Netpac, awarded to the best Asian feature film, was founded in 1995. Based on Dilip Kumar’s short story Oru Gumasthavin Kathai (A Clerk’s Story), the film is produced by Stray Factory, Harman Ventures, Magic Hour Films, Cent Percent Films, Uncombed Buddha and Netherlands-based Rinkel Film. Koumarane Valavane, theatre director of Pondicherry-based Indianostrum Théâtre, plays the lead in this film. Others in the cast include Sudha Ragunathan, Yasmin Rahman, Sabari and Bakkiyam Sarikar. Nasir is the story of a Muslim man working in a textile shop in Coimbatore, set against the backdrop of the communal riots in the city in...
- 2/3/2020
- by Sreedevi
- The News Minute
Here’s a film for which the label “low-key” feels particularly misleading, one whose power resides in its simplicity, in its ability to conjure grace out of a beguilingly ordinary tale. Nasir, Indian writer-director Arun Karthick’s sophomore feature, is a film of quiet pleasures and unassuming wonders. It follows a day in the life of the salesman it is named after, and unspools at his becalmed and contemplative pace. It opens with the sound of a morning prayer and retains that early morning dream-like aura, locking you in a state of reverie and then shattering it in a finale of startling violence.
A Muslim man in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Nasir (Koumarane Valavane) lives with his family in the city of Coimbatore, where he works in a Hindu-run clothing shop. His adopted son Iqbal (Sabari) struggles with a learning disability, his wife (Sudha Ranganathan) must leave...
A Muslim man in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Nasir (Koumarane Valavane) lives with his family in the city of Coimbatore, where he works in a Hindu-run clothing shop. His adopted son Iqbal (Sabari) struggles with a learning disability, his wife (Sudha Ranganathan) must leave...
- 1/29/2020
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Miguel Gomes [pictured] and Reha Erdem to head international competition and India Gold juries, respectively; fest also unveils line-up and Jia Zhangke award.
Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes (Arabian Nights) is heading the jury for the international competition at this year’s Mumbai Film Festival, while Turkish director Reha Erdem will preside over the jury for the India Gold section.
Gomes will be joined by filmmakers Tala Hadid and Anurag Kashyap, producer Christine Vachon and Hot Docs president Chris McDonald. Titles selected for the International Competition for first-time filmmakers include Israeli filmmaker Elite Zexer’s Sand Storm and Diamond Island, from French-Cambodian filmmaker Davy Chou (see full line-up below).
Erdem recently won the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at Venice for Big Big World. He will be joined on the India Gold jury by composer Mychael Danna (Life Of Pi), Hong Kong director Yonfan (Peony Pavilion), Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski (United States Of Love) and critic Stephanie Zacharek.
The festival...
Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes (Arabian Nights) is heading the jury for the international competition at this year’s Mumbai Film Festival, while Turkish director Reha Erdem will preside over the jury for the India Gold section.
Gomes will be joined by filmmakers Tala Hadid and Anurag Kashyap, producer Christine Vachon and Hot Docs president Chris McDonald. Titles selected for the International Competition for first-time filmmakers include Israeli filmmaker Elite Zexer’s Sand Storm and Diamond Island, from French-Cambodian filmmaker Davy Chou (see full line-up below).
Erdem recently won the Special Orizzonti Jury Prize at Venice for Big Big World. He will be joined on the India Gold jury by composer Mychael Danna (Life Of Pi), Hong Kong director Yonfan (Peony Pavilion), Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski (United States Of Love) and critic Stephanie Zacharek.
The festival...
- 9/30/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
The Nfdc Film Bazaar has announced “Market Recommendations” for 2013. Market Recommendations showcase select films looking for gap finance, distribution partners and world sales.
Film Bazaar 2013 will be held from 20 – 24 Nov, at Marriott Resort, Goa, alongside Iffi (International Film Festival of India – 20 – 30 Nov). Read Work-in-Progress Lab projects 2013
Below are the “Film Bazaar Recommends” films for this year:
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja
(Fig Fruit and The Wasps)
Director – M S PrakashBabu
Chaurya
(Theft)
Director – Sameer Patil
Chikka Putta
(Small Things, Big Things)
Director – Saumyananda Sahi
Coffee Bloom
Director – Manu Warrier
It’s not about the Cycle
Director – Achyutanand Dwivedi
Jai Ho – A Film On A.R. Rahman
Director – Umesh Aggarwal
Jayjaykar
(Triumph of Life)
Director – Shantanu Ganesh Rode
Kutchi Vahan Pani Wala
(From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf)
Director – Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran
Lajwanti
(The Honor Keeper)
Director – Pushpender Singh
M Cream
Director – Agneya Singh
Margarita, With A Straw
Director – Shonali Bose
Mrs. Scooter...
Film Bazaar 2013 will be held from 20 – 24 Nov, at Marriott Resort, Goa, alongside Iffi (International Film Festival of India – 20 – 30 Nov). Read Work-in-Progress Lab projects 2013
Below are the “Film Bazaar Recommends” films for this year:
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja
(Fig Fruit and The Wasps)
Director – M S PrakashBabu
Chaurya
(Theft)
Director – Sameer Patil
Chikka Putta
(Small Things, Big Things)
Director – Saumyananda Sahi
Coffee Bloom
Director – Manu Warrier
It’s not about the Cycle
Director – Achyutanand Dwivedi
Jai Ho – A Film On A.R. Rahman
Director – Umesh Aggarwal
Jayjaykar
(Triumph of Life)
Director – Shantanu Ganesh Rode
Kutchi Vahan Pani Wala
(From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf)
Director – Shaina Anand, Ashok Sukumaran
Lajwanti
(The Honor Keeper)
Director – Pushpender Singh
M Cream
Director – Agneya Singh
Margarita, With A Straw
Director – Shonali Bose
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- 11/4/2013
- by NewsDesk
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