A young woman, Jean returns to Bangkok from Sweden after three years, inspired by the ideas of minimalism and undertakes to de-clutter...

POKHAR KE DUNU PAAR (2022, Bihar) deals with a young couple who had eloped to Delhi but are forced to come back to their hometown in...

Comprising several characters whose lives intersect in Paris through an unfortunate incident involving the insult of Maria, a homeless...

American indie cinema has always thrown up surprises at regular intervals. This time it is TO LESLIE (2022), based on a true account of a...

A twisted tale surrounding the theft of gold bars smuggled from Dubai to Kochi is what Mridul Nair’s KASARGOLD (Malayalam, 2023) is...

In the guise of a thriller NIGHT MOVES (US, 2013) depicts the efforts of three young radical environmentalists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota...

Quite strangely, while watching FAIR PLAY (US, 2023) by debutant Chole Domont, I was reminded of Satyajit Ray’s MAHANAGAR (1963). In the...

What seems like a desolate industrial town serves as the setting for this atmospheric film peopled with drug addicts, drug dealers,...

A taut noir at 1.10-hour, HIGHWAY DRAGNET (1954) by Nathan Juran follows the travails of Richard Conte, a WW2 veteran who is on the run...

In BLIND CHANCE (Poland, 1987), Krzysztof Kieslowski’s biting criticism of Communist Poland did not go down well with the authorities; so...

We knew about the North Indians’ obsession with Mumbai or the Punjabis’ fixation on Canada but weren’t aware of the fascination the city...

Unlike the Holocaust and other disturbing moments in history, the Armenian genocide under Ottoman rule during the First World War has...

It is 1943 Europe and any foreigner engaging romantically with a German woman is viewed as causing harm to racial purity – a sacrilege...

This is quite a bewildering narrative in the sense that it packs in several stories that are woven around a main plot involving a...

Cassandra is a 26-year-old flight attendant working at a low-cost airliner, consumed with grief from her mother’s death in an accident,...

A young girl who cooks for a roadside food joint run by her family is inducted into the employment of a famous chef in Bangkok known for...

There comes a moment in everybody’s life when an incident that one had not anticipated a moment ago assumes momentous significance – even...

When Adam, a fisherman’s son gains a scholarship to Cairo’s Al-Azhar University he is delighted; after all, the university is known for...

James, the belligerent leader of a Malayalee group wakes up from his afternoon slumber inside the bus that they have hired to take them...

Years ago, a young medical student killed herself after being sexually harassed by her batchmates at a private party. The culprits have...