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Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid at Cannes: 'I understood this time the vengeance would be biblical'

India, May 23 -- Somewhere in the middle of Israeli director Nadav Lapid's new feature film, Yes, is a joke about a Jew talking to a travel agent about a suitable destination for his vacation. The Jew... Read More


Cannes Film Festival 2025 is all about looking at the present through the past

India, May 21 -- The loudest cheer at the 78th Cannes Film Festival was reserved for a new black and white movie about the making of a movie some 65 years ago. Nouvelle Vogue (New Wave) by American d... Read More


India's film schools shine at Cannes

India, May 21 -- L ast summer, a diploma film from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, captured attention at the Cannes Film Festival. Sunflowers Were the First to Know, a Banjara... Read More


India's film schools shine at Cannes

India, May 21 -- L ast summer, a diploma film from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, captured attention at the Cannes Film Festival. Sunflowers Were the First to Know, a Banjara... Read More


India's state-run film schools continue their dream run in Cannes

India, May 17 -- Last summer, a diploma film from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune lit up the Cannes Film Festival with a Banjara sunrise folk tale, winning the top prize for fi... Read More


Shaji N Karun: A life lived illuminating Indian cinema

India, April 29 -- Shaji N Karun began his career in the '70s as a cinematographer trained at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. He would go on to become India's most-awarded fil... Read More


Film on Dehradun's women helpline goes to Hot Docs Canada: Docu traces helpline's unusual marriage counselling service

India, April 26 -- Launched two decades ago, the Women Helpline in Dehradun is a well-staffed special office inside a police station in the hill state of Uttarakhand. Now, thanks to an intercontinenta... Read More


Afghanistan's Ambassador to Austria is confronting the Taliban and fighting oppression of women in her country

India, March 29 -- A day before Kabul fell to the Taliban, Manizha Bakhtari asked Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar: "What will we do if the government falls?" "The government won't... Read More


Record-breaking auction of MF Husain painting boosts confidence in Indian art

India, March 21 -- In the summer of 1954, the All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society in New Delhi was showing an exhibition of paintings by a few of the emerging Indian artists. The building of the Art... Read More


India's first literary tourism circuit coming up in Kerala soon

India, March 15 -- Kerala is building a new literary tourism circuit, literally. Museums and memorials for some of the most famous Malayalam writers, like Vaikom Muhammad Basheer and OV Vijayan are c... Read More