Festivals

Mani Ratnam Presented With Icon Award At London Indian Film Festival

Acclaimed Indian film director Mani Ratnam, known for his films like Roja, Bombay and Dil Se, has won the Icon award at the Bagri Foundation London Film Festival for his outst...

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Children's Film Festival In Hyderabad In November

International Children’s Film Festival of India (ICFFI) – 2015 will be held in Hyderabad from November 14 to20. About 200 children’s films in various languag...

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Locarno Film Festival Announces Lineup For Its 68th Year, Awards Edward Norton On Opening Night

The heart of Europe hosts the 68th Locarno International Film Festival, August 5-15th. The Locarno International Film Festival celebrates auteur cinema for its 68th year this ...

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Wassaic Project Film Festival Announces 2015 Line Up, Including ‘Diary Of A Teenage Girl’ And ‘Krisha’

The 8th annual summer festival will include screenings of feature films and shorts, director and producer Q&As, a surprise midnight movie and a film workshop. The Wassaic ...

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Filipino Auteur Brillante Mendoza To Receive Tribute At Sarajevo Film Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival is set to pay tribute to Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza, who won the director prize at Cannes with his ultra-violent “The Execution of P&rd...

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Women Set To Dominate At London Indian Film Festival 2015

From the tale of a persecuted rights activist hounded from her home to Shabnam Sukhdev’s moving study of her father, this year’s programme foregrounds work by and ...

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Denis, Jia, Holland To Lead First TIFF Platform Jury.

Festival selects trio to judge first competitive section, aimed at ‘auteur films’; Cameron Bailey talks strand. The Toronto International Film Festival (September ...

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Locarno's Open Doors Gets New Awards.

MAD Solutions among backers of Maghreb films in Co-pro Lab line up. Arab-focused promotion agency MAD Solutions will this year provide distribution and promotional support to ...

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Locarno To Open With Demme's 'Flash'

World premieres for new films by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Hong Sangsoo, Ben Rivers; Southpaw, Trainwreck among Piazza Grande titles. The 68th Locarno Film Festival (August 5-15...

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Two Big Documentaries Premiere At Christchurch Film Festival

A Christchurch film festival is about to feature two world premieres on New Zealand’s two biggest stories of the past decade – the Christchurch earthquakes and the...

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TRENDING: IS HE A LEADER OR A PROPAGANDIST?

Was it the leader of a democratic nation or a propagandist spewing divisive rhetoric in ...

April 28 2024

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: LOOKING FOR THE MAHANAYAK

Srijit Mukherji’s Oti Uttam is a film hard to dislike. And no, it’s not just...

April 27 2024

POLITICS: PEOPLE WILL DEFEAT AMIT SHAH

Vinta Nanda spent two days with Sonal Patel and returns to tell us that the Congress Par...

April 26 2024