Much is being written about Anamika Haksar’s GHODE KO JALEBI KHILANE LE JA RIYA HOON. It’s a film that did not find any takers on...

Over the years, Hong Kong action filmmakers have mastered the art of complex storytelling by negotiating parallel strands and multiple...

A sailor returns to his hometown after three years and discovers that his beloved has fallen in love with a rich man. This is enough of a...

An unknown young artist from the city arrives at a remote village by the sea to work on his sculpture in peace, but very soon enters into...

Before he became the 40th President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, Jose Pepe Mujica spent 12 years along with two of his comrades in...

Twenty-five years ago, when I first read this unknown Swiss-German writer Friedrich Durrenmatt’s THE PLEDGE which he wrote in 1958, a...

When I read contemporary Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan’s famous novel VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH a few years ago, I was...

Ten years after debuting with his impressive I.D. (2012, Hindi), Kamal KM, an FTII alumnus from the late 90s comes out with his second...

Joseph Losey was blacklisted by the McCarthy Committee and migrated to the UK where he continued to make films. But despite significant...

A teenager is forced to take up the responsibility of his siblings after the death of his father; he resorts to smuggling across the...

Tyrone Power plays an ambitious young man who works at a travelling carnival who rises up the social ladder through con, helped ably by...

Revisiting a master after decades opens up newer perspectives and reveals layers that may have escaped notice at first viewing. The...

“Dear Sister, Your image is dear to us. Take care of it; otherwise, we will.” The poster prescribing hijab for Algerian women outside a...

The tags project the film as ‘understated, sentimental’, enough to put off a viewer desiring a packed and robust narrative; but in the...

When Mustafa is denied permission to cross over to Israeli-controlled West Bank on technical grounds in order to reach a hospital where...

An anthology consisting of four films by Chinese auteur Zia Zhangke looks at desperate men and women, victims of circumstances created by...

A bag full of cash owed to a loan shark by a corrupt customs officer lands up in the hands of a shop clerk saddled with a sick but alert...

SINCERELY YOURS, DHAKA (2018) is an anthology from Bangladesh consisting of 11 short films by different directors that explores diverse...

Middle Eastern cinema continues to surprise. This time it is a one-night story from Lebanon – FALAFEL (2006) by debutant Michel Kammoun...

A French thriller always has its own special appeal. Carla (played by Emmanuelle Devos) plays a disgruntled secretary who works at a real...