Festivals

Dublin International Film Festival Tours To Its Namesakes In Ohio, Texas And Virginia

Dublin here, Dublin there! This year the Audi Dublin International Film Festival (ADIFF ) will tour its Irish shorts program to international locations that share the names Du...

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Berlinale Film Festival: Recounting The Horrors And Scars Left By Wars

Can any nation ever put behind the memories of a war? The scars that are engraved on the soul, and the soil, are perhaps the hardest to get rid of.In Germany, it is not just a...

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Berlin: Meryl Streep On Director Gender GapBerlin: Meryl Streep On Director Gender Gap: "We Need 40- To 50-Year-Old White Males To Be Interested"

Meryl Streep said Hollywood is giving female directors more opportunities to tell their own stories — and the green light is coming from younger decision-makers, not gra...

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Interview: Kathryn Kolbert And Melissa Silverstein, Founders Of The Athena Film Festival

The 6th Annual Athena Film Festival, a festival to highlight works by women filmmakers and stories about women, is next week at Barnard. I got a chance to talk on the phone wi...

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At FLO Film Fest, 32 Shades Of Women’s Issues From Across The Globe

SPREAD over three days across several venues in the city, the FLO Film Festival, organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), will showcase 32 films which will explore the th...

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Tribeca Film Festival Is Making A Huge Push Into Virtual Reality This Year

The festival, which kicks off in April, will feature a Virtual Arcade, allowing around 50 visitors to dive into VR environments using various headsets like the Samsung Gear VR...

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PREVIEW-Berlin Film Fest Opens With Clooney - And Eye On Refugees

George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when "Hail, Caesar!" opens the annual Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned show...

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Spinning The Lazy Susan With Stars At Rotterdam's Film Festival

Few film festivals give anyone the chance to sit next to a star director over dinner, so spinning the lazy susan in Rotterdam's favourite Chinese restaurant with Whit Stillman...

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Europe's Migrant Crisis Has A Starring Role At The Berlin Film Festival

BERLIN — Europe's migrant crisis will play a starring role at the Berlin International Film Festival that opens this week, a reflection of Germany's own leading performa...

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A STORY BURIED BENEATH PARTITION'S ASHES

Arnab Banerjee examines Imtiaz Ali's Main Vaapas Aaunga, a poignant Partition-era drama ...

June 14 2026

OF SHARED DESTINIES AND FRACTURED BONDS

Film critic Saibal Chatterjee reviews Pritha Chakraborty's Phera, a deeply moving father...

June 14 2026

ANAND HI ANAND: PRESERVING CINEMA LEGACY

Writer and theatre practitioner Sohaila Kapur reflects on the creation and success of An...

June 13 2026