Movies

Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s debut feature film “The Man Beyond The Bridge” won FIPRESCI prize in the discovery section of Toronto Film Festival.

The award for Best New International Feature went to director Kyle Patrick Alvarez for his film "Easier With Practice" at the recently concluded Edinburgh International Film Festival (17-28 June). The winners were announced at the EIFF Awards Ceremony in the presence of Festival Patrons, Sir Sean Connery and Seamus McGarvey.

It was the 9th anniversary (10-14 June 2009) of the Arab Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) this year, the one major showcase for the best of the previous year's production from the Arab world. Given the large Arab population in the Netherlands, a festival of this kind enjoys a clear place and role in a multicultural city...

Renowned Indian director M. S Sathyu's (Garam Hawa) comeback film "The Incompatible" will have its world premiere at upcoming first Ahmedabad International Film Festival.

The maiden edition of the Ahmedabad International Film Festival will take off on June 25, 2009 with Laurent Cantet's "The Class".

The 9th edition of River to River. Florence Indian Film Festival will take place from 4 to 10 December 2009 in Florence, Italy, under the Patronage of the Embassy of India in Rome.

International Film Festivals in India are no longer a prerogative of the big cities. Kolhapur in Maharashtra, one of the earliest filmmaking centres in the country, has shown a glimpse of things to emerge in future by organizing first international film festival.

I started with the usual question about his journey from a wanderer to a cinematographer and look what I got for an answer "You see it all started when I was an embryo and was lying on the beach. There was wind and waves washing me off. It was a terrible start." He then begins to fake a sob.

Welcome to the world of Christopher Doyle, the Shakespeare of post modern cinematography.

Vera Chawla's Death Without Consent is a thriller about how the US government spreads terrorism of a different kind which has already started affecting the human race in the developing nations. Waiting for its world premiere at the 39th IFFI in Goa, the director spoke about the film and its inspirations.

Vijay Raaz is not only a great actor whose charm is just irresistible, he also perfectly merges a profound and emotional sincerity with a great sense of comedy. And apart from his terrific acting skills he's on the international market fortunately one of the most well-known and appreciated Indian actors (not considering the Indian communities he's in Europe even more famous than for example Amitabh Bachchan).

To work with all our Indian actors, in particular with Vijay was a great pleasure and a fantastic experience. They were extremely sensitive and having a very professional understanding of the creative, as well as the technical workflow.

We couldn't have asked for more...location was legendary V. Shantaram's historical Plaza theatre in Mumbai, abuzz with the Third Eye festival. People had dared to defy the unofficial curfew clamped on the city after the arrest of an ambitious local politician. Twenty four hour television news channels kept on playing the footage of vehicles set on fire by his political goons giving us an apt backdrop to discuss the politics of imaging that "Gulabi Talkies" deals with. And here we were - Aniruddha, Anirban and I, discussing his films and cinema in general with Girish Kasaravalli, one of the few contemporary masters of Indian cinema.