“Goddesses” has received the Golden Conch for best Indian Documentary Film in this year’s MIFF. The film rather naively took us to probe into the lives of three most ordinary women, belonging to the southern part of the country. Laksmi, Krishnaveni and Sethuraku, all are enormously mundane souls whom we often choose to ignore unless and until someone like Leena with her unique visionary skill, rather drags us to trace the extraordinariness in them.

The first few minutes into the film introduce you to breathtaking effect of the cinema of Fados. You have shadows of live individuals walking as they do on a street (you do not see them under direct light). These shadows fall on a screen where another film image is projected. The present and the past merge. As the opening credits roll, you realize you are being seduced by the kinetic images. And even up to the final shot of the film, you realize that you are under the spell of creative use of shadows, images, mirrors, projection screens and shiny reflecting dance floors…..

More people need to see the Stefan Haupt’s A Song for Argyris so that similar horrors are not perpetrated elsewhere in the world. Haupt offers open-ended options to deal with grief, which makes you think how you ought to deal with personal grief, writes Jugu Abraham
Ein Lied für Argyris: A Song For Argyris (2006)Here is […]

While the film gives you a very powerful viewpoint from one perspective, it falls into the same trap that Moore creates; the one sided ideological barrage with no counter-point, writes Zubin Driver
The Road to Guantanamo: The Absurd Cost Of WarA bunch of Pak-British youth stray into Afghanistan post 9/11 and are sucked into a chaotic […]

Amidst all the discussions on the dangers of global warming, Basant, the favorite season of Indian romantic as well as devotional poets sounds like fiction. Yousuf Saeed’s documentary narrates the story of our shared cultural heritage of Basant, the season and Sufi music.
Filmmaker’s introduction to the film:
Basant is a spring festival celebrated in north India. […]

And today, DearCinemaFest presents a film that will make you think. Shibu K. Nair has sent us this film from Thiruvananthapuram that might even make you feel guilty of living in a city that generates tons of waste every day without giving much thought to where it’s going to go.
Enjoy the film, and don’t forget […]

I found this very interesting interview of Michael Moore on MySpaceTV, where among other things, he talks about his experience of shooting his kind of documentaries without getting arrested. He also talks about what’s next on his mind. Interview was recorded with his old friend Tom Morell in April for myspacetv.

The Storyteller and the Rockstar
A film on a controversial icon of our generation has to be pulled into some sort of controversy. Though Dylan’s followers would outnumber his detractor any day but this man has something that makes him worth hating.
The documentary was not only criticized for not being true to the spirit of […]