Christian Petzold | Germany | 2023 | 103 mins. | German
A small holiday house by the Baltic sea. The days are hot and it hasn’t rained in weeks. Four young people come together, friends old and new. As the parched forests around them begin to ignite, so... Read More
Varun Grover | India | 2022 | 97 mins. | Hindi
Set in the late 1990s, in the pre-mobile-phone era, All India Rank is a slice-of-life dramedy about 17-year old Vivek who is sent away from home to a prep-school to study for the highly competitive... Read More
Siddharth Chauhan | India | 2022 | 75 mins. | Hindi | Director attending
In the heart of Amar Colony, a dilapidated building, Meera seeks excitement amidst her pregnancy and a dull marriage, while her absent husband harbours his own secrets. Her young and idle neighbour,... Read More
Makbul Mubarak | Indonesia, France, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Germany, Qatar | 2022 | 115 mins. | Indonesian
With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served... Read More
Maryam Touzani | France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark | 2022 | 122 mins. | Arabic
Born in Tangier, Morocco, in 1980, Maryam Touzani began her career in journalism in London before returning to Morocco to specialise in North African cinema. She ventured into filmmaking with... Read More
Dhinakaran Sivalingam | India | 2023 | 149 mins. | Tamil | World Premiere | Director and Producer attending
When his wife sends him to rehab for his alcohol addiction without consent, Radha’s world shatters, fuelling his desperate escape plan. Loneliness and estrangement from his family follow as he... Read More
Darkhan Tulegenov | Kazakhstan | 2022 | 100 mins. | Kazakh | India Premiere
Akzhol, a new graduate of the orphanage, starts a new and independent life. He is convinced that his father is alive and begins to search for him. After meeting his neighbour Dimash, the two begin to... Read More
João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora | Brazil, Portugal | 2023 | 124 mins. | Portuguese | South Asia Premiere
Through her child’s eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people in the heart of the Brazilian forest. Tirelessly persecuted, but guided by their ancestral... Read More
Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany | 2023 | 81 mins. | Finnish
Fallen Leaves tells the story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first and ultimate love of their lives. Their path towards this honourable... Read More
Don Palathara | India | 2023 | 111 mins. | Malayalam | Director attending
In rural central Kerala, Sony, a Catholic man in his late twenties, appears at first glance to be a benevolent and caring individual. However, beneath his public façade lies a hidden persona. As... Read More
Harshad Nalawade | India | 2023 | 100 mins. | Marathi, Kannada | Director attending
In a small town torn by territorial disputes between two linguistic communities, Raghu, a radicalised journalist working for an online media outlet, becomes a mouthpiece for an extremist leader.... Read More
Billy Luther | USA | 2023 | 83 mins. | English, Navajo | Director attending
In 1990, 12-year-old Benny, a Native American boy from San Diego, is reluctantly sent to his Grandma Lorraine’s Navajo ranch in Arizona. Despite the language barrier and harsh living... Read More
Saurav Rai | India, Nepal | 2023 | 114 mins. | Nepali
When cardamom prices plummet in her village, it disrupts the once-stable life of nine-year-old Guras. To add to the chaos, her beloved pet dog disappears. Amidst the backdrop of a looming leopard... Read More
Hong Sangsoo | South Korea | 2023 | 84 mins. | Korean
A woman in her early 40s is temporarily staying at her friend’s house, who is taking care of a cat. Simultaneously, an elderly man in his 70s, living alone, has recently lost his ageing cat.... Read More
Thien An Pham | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain | 2023 | 178 mins. | Vietnamese
A reluctant Thien must take the body of his sister-in-law, who died in a freak motorcycle accident in Saigon, and her five-year-old son Dao, who miraculously survived the crash, to their hometown in... Read More
Devashish Makhija | India | 2022 | 138 mins. | Hindi | Director attending
Dasru and Vaano lead an anonymous life as migrant labourers on a Mumbai construction site with their infant daughter, Joram. The family’s world collides with Karma, a female tribal leader from... Read More
C.J. "Fiery" Obasi | Nigeria | 2022 | 107 mins. | West African Pidgin | India Premiere
In the oceanside village of Iyi, the revered Mama Efe acts as an intermediary between the people and the all-powerful water deity Mami Wata. But when a young boy is lost to a virus, Efe’s devoted... Read More
Jayant Digambar Somalkar | India | 2023 | 104 mins. | Marathi | Director attending
In a village in rural India, a young determined girl, Savita, yearns for education and a bright future. However, as her farmer parents anxiously struggle to find a suitable match for her, societal... Read More
Warwick Thornton | Australia | 2023 | 116 mins. | English
In 1940s Australia, a nine-year-old Aboriginal boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun. The boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story... Read More
Prasanna Vithanage | India, Sri Lanka | 2023 | 93 mins. | English, Sinhala, Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil | Director attending
Eager to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary, Amritha, a video blogger, and her husband Kesav, a film producer, arrive in Sri Lanka from Mumbai to experience a mystical tour of historical... Read More
Wim Wenders | Japan | 2023 | 124 mins. | Japanese
Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and books. And he loves trees and... Read More
Dominic Megam Sangma | India | 2023 | 127 mins. | Garo | Director attending
In a village plagued by kidnapping fears, the church announces the arrival of a miraculous Virgin Mary statue along with a grim announcement from the village security head, Nengsal, who warns “ of... Read More
Achal Mishra | India | 2023 | 95 mins. | Ladakhi, Balti, Hindi, English, German, Kannada | World Premiere | Director attending
Glimpses of everyday life in Ladakh on a long summer evening. Through vignettes of daily life, landscapes, and wildlife, set entirely during the liminal blue hour, Ri paints a portrait of Ladakh as... Read More
Sepideh Farsi | France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium | 2023 | 99 mins. | Farsi | Director attending
1980. Southern Iran. The people of Abadan have been fighting an Iraqi siege. Among them is 14-year-old Omid, who has chosen to stay in the city with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to... Read More
Isabel Herguera | Germany, Spain | 2023 | 80 mins. | Basque, Bengali, English, Hindi, Italian, Spanish
In this animation feature, inspired by a feminist science-fiction story written in 1905 in Bengal, the protagonist, Inés, embarks on a journey through India searching for traces of Ladyland, a... Read More
Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari | Iran | 2023 | 78 mins. | Farsi
Terrestrial Verses follows everyday people from all walks of life as they navigate the cultural, religious, and institutional constraints imposed on them by various social authorities, from school... Read More
Rima Das | India | 2022 | 122 mins. | Assamese
Amidst loss and lockdowns, Tora’s husband Jaan, a loving father and kind neighbour, struggles to keep his small-town business afloat and grapples with uncertainty and restlessness. With a worldview... Read More
Shahrukhkhan Chavada | India | 2023 | 96 mins. | Hindi, Gujarati | Director attending
Set in Kalupur, a neighbourhood in the old city of Ahmedabad, this slice-of-life film follows the daily life of Razzak and his family through an observational lens. Razzak, an unemployed father of... Read More
Aamir Bashir | India, France, Qatar | 2022 | 99 mins. | Kashmiri, Urdu | Director attending
In the city of Srinagar, Nargis searches for her missing husband, Manzoor, until she is forced to hopelessly return to her village home. With a little help from a local man Yaseen, she silently toils... Read More
Houman Seyedi | Iran | 2022 | 97 mins. | Farsi
Shakib is a homeless day labourer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute... Read More
Sarvnik Kaur | India, France | 2023 | 97 mins. | Hindi, Koli, Marathi
Bombay fishermen Rakesh and Ganesh are inheritors of the great Koli knowledge system—a way to harvest the sea by following the moon and the tides. Rakesh has kept faith in the traditional fishing... Read More
Sreemoyee Singh | India | 2023 | 75 mins. | English, Farsi | Director attending
Inspired by Iranian cinema and the poetry of Forough Farrokhzad, a young Indian filmmaker journeys to Iran to witness how resistance becomes a daily act of survival in Iranian society. Despite... Read More
Manthia Diawara | Portugal | 2023 | 77 mins. | Language | India Premiere
The essay film reflects on the life and work of the North American activist Angela Davis. The film is neither a biography nor a fictional narrative. Instead, Diawara’s footage, which is... Read More
Clara Kraft Isono | UK, Sri Lanka | 2022 | 89 mins. | English, French | Director attending
Bawa’s Garden is a road movie in search of the works of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the ‘lost’ garden of Lunuganga.... Read More
Jyoti Nisha | India | 2023 | 111 mins. | English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati | World Premiere | Director attending
Through the discerning lens of a Bahujan feminist filmmaker operating within the upper-caste Indian film industry, the film delves deep into critical themes of liberty, equality, fraternity, social... Read More
Nishtha Jain | Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Netherlands, Norway, UK | 2022 | 86 mins. | Bengali, Hindi | Director attending
Outside Kolkata, a few jute mills crank on, virtually unchanged since the industrial revolution. Powered by steam and sweat, work is a dance to the rhythms of the century-old machines. The Golden... Read More
Elvis A-Liang Lu | Taiwan, France | 2022 | 88 mins. | Taiwanese (Hokkien), Chinese | India Premiere
After 24 years of absence, director A-Liang Elvis Lu returns home to his family in a rural area of southwestern Taiwan. His elder brother is a psychic that communicates Taoist deities’ career... Read More
A collaboration between Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja | Canada | 2023 | 87 mins. | Punjabi | Asia Premiere | Directors attending
I am Sirat features a transgender woman who is caught between duty and self-determination. As Aman, she lives in New Delhi with her widowed mother as a son, fulfilling responsibilities in the... Read More
Guy Davidi | Denmark, Israel, Finland, Iceland | 2022 | 100 mins. | Hebrew | India Premiere
Innocence tackles the issue of militarisation and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. Through a narration based on the... Read More
Nirmal Chander | India | 2023 | 71 mins. | English, Hindi | Director attending
“Hands destined to mould a thing of beauty”. Thus wrote James Cousins, eminent writer, of a young Sikh potter he met in Japan in 1922. The film celebrates the life and legacy of... Read More
Asmae El Moudir | Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt | 2023 | 97 mins. | Arabic
Young Moroccan filmmaker, Asmae el Moudir, wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its... Read More
Patricio Guzmán | Chile, France | 2022 | 83 mins. | Spanish
In October 2019, an unforeseen revolution ignited a social upheaval. Over one and a half million individuals took to the streets of Santiago, demanding increased democracy, improved living standards,... Read More
Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey | Nepal | 2023 | 79 mins. | Nepali | South Asia Premiere | Director attending
Amidst the migration of their friends and neighbours for the winter, two widows, Ratima and Kalima, choose to remain behind as caretakers of their empty village. Isolated and snowbound for a hundred... Read More
Dakxin Chhara | India, United Kingdom | 2023 | 49 mins. | Bhantu, Hindi | Director attending
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a collective of indigenous artists belonging to India’s ‘ex-criminal’ De-notified Tribes and associated with Budhan Theatre, decided to produce... Read More
Deepa Dhanraj | India | 1991 | 52 mins. | Hindi, Marwari
A historical overview of India’s coercive Family Planning programme and its effect on women. The film examines this issue from the point of view of women themselves, those who were pushed to... Read More
Margreth Olin | Norway | 2023 | 90 mins. | Norwegian | Asia Premiere
With Norway’s dizzyingly beautiful mountain landscapes as its monumental backdrop, Olin embarks on an existential journey with her own ageing parents as the human yardstick within the vast... Read More
Emil Langballe and Lukasz Konopa | Denmark, Germany | 2023 | 104 mins. | English, Luo, Swahili
In his role as a defence lawyer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Krispus Ayena faces a profound ethical dilemma: Can an individual be both an executioner and a victim? Ayena’s... Read More
Peter Mettler | Switzerland, Canada | 2023 | 166 mins. | English | India Premiere
While The Green Grass Grows is an audio-visual, trance-like, epic diary that looks at the miracles contained in everyday things and occurrences. Peter Mettler follows and weaves, with his unique... Read More
Vinay Shukla | India, United Kingdom | 2022 | 94 mins. | Hindi
The Prime Time Indian TV journalist, Ravish Kumar, is in trouble. Renowned for his fearless takedowns of the ruling establishment during his long-standing prime-time news slot, he faces mounting... Read More
Anand Patwardhan | India | 2023 | 96 mins. | English, Hindi, Marathi | Director attending
In a milieu challenging dominant, exclusivist Hindu caste notions, Anand grew up surrounded by the universalist idea of “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” – the belief that the world is one... Read More
Leslie Shampaine and Pip Gilmour | India, USA, Israel, UK | 2023 | 84 mins. | English, Hindi | South Asia Premiere | Producer and cast attending
Manish is a talented and athletic street dancer from Mumbai who dreams of becoming a professional against the wishes of his struggling parents who have moved to the big city from a small village in... Read More
Aravindan Govindan | India | 1979 | 90 mins. | Malayalam
In a remote Malabar village, the enigmatic figure of Kummatty looms large in folklore. To the village’s children, he’s both a bogeyman and a magician. One day, Kummatty materialises with... Read More
Kiran Narayan Dhamale | India | 2023 | 30 mins. | Marathi
Kulfi is the story of Ganya, a kid from a remote place, who desires to eat an ice-cream but cannot afford to buy it. Will his fortune allow him to eat that kulfi?
Chandradeep Singh Rathore | India | 2023 | 24 mins. | Rajasthani
In the timeless Rajasthan desert, a nomadic family of musicians led by young Sarwar’s father earns whatever little money and water people can spare in exchange. Frustrated yet hopeful of his... Read More
Salman Alam Khan | Pakistan, USA | 2023 | 5 mins. | Urdu
A teenage boy wants to follow his passion, but lives in a family that does not support his ambitions. Afraid to express his true self because of the pressures, he finds the only space in the house... Read More
Daanish Shastri | India | 2022 | 22 mins. | Kumaoni
In a quaint Himalayan village, an ambitious 11-year-old dreams of becoming an astronaut, banking on a new road for better education. When corruption sabotages the road, she and her friends hatch a... Read More
Arun Fulara | India | 2023 | 20 mins. | Kumaoni
As Monu’s family readies to leave their Himalayan village, he longs to see the legendary leopard, Shera, which his friend Raju endeavors to make possible before their departure.
Disha Bhardwaj | India | 2023 | 16 mins. | Hindi, Pahari
A family of three, Leela, Raju and their son Abbu live in a small beautiful village deep in the lower Himalayas. Abbu struggles with his secret gender identity while Raju is stricken by loss and... Read More
Omi Zola Gupta, Sparsh Ahuja | United Kingdom, Laos | 2022 | 17 mins. | Hmong
Birdsong explores the dying whistling traditions of Laos’ Hmong people, focusing on three individuals from Long Lan village. The film highlights the collision of this ancient linguistic practice... Read More
Nimisha Srivastava | India | 2022 | 25 mins. | English, Hindi
Chadariya unearths the individual and collective experiences of young unmarried Indian women facing the pain and violence of abortion. Through a multi-voiced narrative, it weaves intergenerational... Read More
Li Kuei-Pi | Taiwan | 2023 | 22 mins. | English
Clement Town draws inspiration from a secluded town in modern Uttarakhand, India, allegedly built by local intelligence agents for Taiwan during the Cold War. The film weaves together staged... Read More
Hansa Thapliyal | India | 2023 | 9 mins. | Hindi
Twelve case workers who have been working on cases of domestic violence over years, traveling to remote corners of Bundelkhand, create a lexicon of words often used by women on the field. The film... Read More
Stanley Xu | Singapore, Taiwan | 2022 | 9 mins. | Chinese Mandarin
Five years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him by walking away. A seemingly harmless... Read More
C.S. Nicholson | Norway | 2022 | 25 mins. | Fongbè, Xwédagbè
In the West African republic of Benin, a family recounts their ancestor’s first encounter with Europeans in 1548 to a European film crew. As they share their version of history, including... Read More
Aprajita Gupta | India | 2022 | 19 mins. | English, Hindi
If dreams had eyes of their own, would they see reality for what it is? A queer desire transcends from a night’s dream to the day’s reality when the filmmaker starts filming her everyday.... Read More
Chaman Ramesh Kishan | India | 2023 | 13 mins. | Hindi
Set in the 1990s, a young man reminisces memories of a conversation with his mother. On returning to the village where he grew up he discovers how once a silent village distant from the hustle and... Read More
Samiksha Mathur | India | 2023 | 24 mins. | Bengali, English, Hindi
Hello Guyzz! provides a window into modern India, where cheap internet and dreams of stardom coexist with class, caste, and gender disparities. Sumita, the central figure, leverages social media to... Read More
Rajkumari Prajapati and Ruchika Negi | India | 2023 | 35 mins. | Hindi
Shot on mobile phone cameras in western Uttar Pradesh, In Between Us seeks to explore the personal positions of two women—Rajkumari, a social activist, and Ruchika, a documentary filmmaker and... Read More
Stenzin Tankyong | India, France | 2023 | 15 mins. | Ladakhi (Changskat)
A recurring mysterious sound from the Himalayan mountains is only heard by two curious young shepherds. Unable to convince the villagers of the eerie nature of this sound, they embark on a journey... Read More
Rahul Roye | India | 2023 | 18 mins. | Hindi
An estranged migrant working-class couple embarks on a deeply emotional journey to find friendship in one another as they grapple with the loss of their daughter to an ill-fated custom.
Preeti Kanungo and Sourav Yadav | India | 2023 | 20 mins. | Hindi
Set in rural India, two sisters Malwa and Khushan live with their grandmother. Navigating sexuality and attraction in their adolescent years, Khushan always looks up to Malwa for her outspoken nature... Read More
Bhaskar Hazarika | India | 2022 | 15 mins. | Assamese
During the peak of the 2020 lockdown, millions of Indian migrant workers were forced to walk thousands of miles back to their villages from big cities. The mother of a young migrant laborer awaits... Read More
Adheep Das | India | 2023 | 24 mins. | Hindi
A bull flees from his herd. The moon goes missing from the sky. The bull runs across this new moonless world, looking for its limit. Instead, he finds different people and their many endeavors and in... Read More
A collection of video and written essays
Monographs is a project born during the COVID-19 pandemic, serving as a critical platform for discourse on moving images beyond the confines of cinema. The second edition of Monographs, guided by... Read More
Arun Bhatarai | Bhutan | 2022 | 22 mins. | Dzongkha
Phuntsho Tshering, Bhutan’s sole glaciologist, embarks on perilous journeys through sacred mountains to measure glaciers threatened by climate change. His 11-year-old daughter, Yangchen, finds... Read More
Reema Maya | India, USA | 2023 | 28 mins. | Hindi, Marathi, English
A 13-year-old girl and a 30-something man are brought to a police station in Mumbai in the middle of the night by two strangers. Amidst questionable motives and unreliable narrators, a frustrated... Read More
Sébastien Simon | South Korea | 2022 | 15 mins. | Korean
A stranger arrives in a town called Mipo: here, urban development is accelerating the gentrification of an old fishing village located on the edge of Haeundae Beach, in Busan city, South Korea.
Manoj Kumar Pant | Nepal, Maldives | 2023 | 9 mins. | Tibetan (Mustangi)
An impoverished couple crosses the Himalayas on foot to a more prosperous village, where they are tasked with gathering leaves and chopping wood of poplar trees. The arrangement takes an unexpected... Read More
Santiago Zermeño | México | 2022 | 29 mins. | Spanish
A diverse group of deaf people explore the Mexican Sign Language through a scenic lab of poetic creation.
Sumedh Natu | India | 2022 | 17 mins. | Marathi
Amidst the rise of saffronisation among Indian youth, Saleel, a queer content creator works for the extremist Vinchu Sena party. When tasked with a destructive mission against an author, a mistaken... Read More
Reetu Sattar | Bangladesh, United Kingdom | 2022 | 22 mins. | Bengali, English
Shabnam delves into the discomfort of colonial history through Bengali language, creating a time gap between sound and text, unearthing hidden narratives and archival images to expose inequality.
Sainath S. Uskaikar | India | 2023 | 12 mins. | Konkani
Sainath, 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, 80, lives far away in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a ‘film letter’ with each other.
Suraj Bhattarai | Bhutan | 2023 | 20 mins. | Dzongkha
In a remote Himalayan village in Bhutan, 13-year-old deaf girl Deki takes on household responsibilities in the absence of a mother, but her world shatters when she experiences her first menstruation.... Read More
Bani Abidi | United Kingdom | 2022 | 22 mins. | No dialogue
An elderly man, recently arrived in a new and unfamiliar European city, confronts the isolation of his new apartment by creating his own soundscapes to recreate what is familiar and reassuring.
Sraiyanti H and Prem Akkattu | India | 2023 | 9 mins. | English, Tamil
A man who works as a security guard in an apartment complex goes about his day, while the residents who live there express their views on caste, identity, and their own social standing. But actions... Read More
Ramazan Kılıç | Turkey | 2023 | 16 mins. | Kurdish
A little Kurdish girl tries to put a smile back on her grandmother’s face after the disappearance of her television, her only window into the world.
Claudius Gentinetta | Switzerland | 2022 | 6 mins. | English
At the mercy of the dentist’s chair, the protagonist cannot escape the confrontation with pain and the dregs of the miserable human condition. To distract himself, he takes refuge in a... Read More
Subarna Dash and Vidushi Gupta | India | 2023 | 7 mins. | Bengali, English, Hindi, Nepali
Big boobs vs. small boobs, who has it worse? A group of women, over a drink, discusses in what ways being a part of a conservative society affects how we feel about our own breasts, which at the end... Read More
Yu Wang | China, France | 2023 | 20 mins. | Chinese
Bin and Yuan are siblings. When they’re not working, they share a small apartment in Marseille. This is their haven, a space where they can rest. Here they can be connected to the outside world at... Read More
Duttatreya Dey | India | 2023 | 17 mins. | Bengali, English, Hindi, Odia
Students of a film institute tread through elusive memories and a long lost time, as they try to find meaning in the aftermath of a student’s absence.
Sunil Gurung | Nepal | 2023 | 10 mins. | Nepali, English
Sonam, 50, embarks on a journey to Nepal’s high-altitude monasteries to honor his deceased wife, whose funeral he didn’t attend, reuniting with his estranged son Karma whom he is seeing for... Read More
Elham Ehsas | Afghanistan, UK | 2023 | 12 mins. | Dari
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, a woman walks into a chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full-body veil and faces an uncertain future.
The participants of Filmlab South Asia 2023 will pitch their projects.
Last year, DIFF launched Filmlab South Asia – a workshop for emerging producer- director teams – in partnership with Festival 3 Continents’ Produire au Sud (PAS). DIFF is excited to host... Read More
Umesh Kulkarni in conversation with short filmmakers Samiksha Mathur (Hello Guyzz!), Aarun Fulara (Shera), Rahul Roye (A Lullaby for the Yellow Roses), Chaman Kishan (A Flight of the Lost Dreamy Bird).
Is the short film a stepping stone to feature films, a calling card to showcase one’s potential in the hope of moving up the so-called ladder to more serious filmmaking? Is it the poor cousin,... Read More
A conversation with Bina Paul, Meenakshi Shedde, Nashen Moodley and Ritu Sarin
For a filmmaker, getting a rejection from a film festival is a heart-wrenching blow. Multiple rejections can be fatal in undermining confidence and self-worth, especially for someone starting out on... Read More
A conversation with Tenzing Sonam and filmmakers Disha Bhardwaj, Dominic Sangma, Rajan Kathet and Sunir Pandey , and Stenzin Tankong
Across the breadth of the Himalaya, from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh, including Nepal and Bhutan, a cinematic churning is becoming apparent as a new generation of filmmakers emerges, determined to... Read More
A conversation with Prathyush Parasuraman and filmmakers Ruchika Negi and Rajkumari Prajapati, Shahrukhkhan Chavada, Harshad Nalawade, Jayant Digambar Somalkar, Achal Misra, and Siddharth Chauhan.
Like in many parts of the world, the advent of digital technology and the democratisation of cinema production has led to an explosion of independent filmmaking in India. No longer dependent on the... Read More
A conversation with Trisha Gupta and filmmakers Clara Kraft Isono, Hansa Thapliyal, Nishtha Jain, and Shreemoye Singh
Documentaries have come a long way from their origins as being factual and objective representations of true events, although from their inception, questions have been raised about their authenticity... Read More
Guneet Monga Kapoor in conversation with Ritu Sarin
Guneet Monga burst onto the filmmaking stage as a young, unknown, outsider woman who pulled the rug from under the entrenched preconceptions of a primarily male-dominated industry and proved against... Read More
Pa. Ranjith in Conversation with Bina Paul
Over the past decade, Pa. Ranjith has emerged as one of the foremost and revolutionary voices in Tamil cinema. By focusing directly on anti-caste politics, his films have challenged the hegemonic and... Read More