India, Sept. 15 -- Across Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Busan, Toronto, and India's own IFFI, women are no longer a token presence but a defining force: winning grand prizes, rewriting programming ratios, and setting the terms of global cinematic conversation

For decades, women made landmark films from the margins. Today, they are writing the marquee. In the space of a few seasons, festival line-ups, major prizes, and even the Oscars scoreboard have shifted in ways that feel structural, not symbolic. Indian filmmakers are right in the thick of this turn, winning grand prizes, anchoring juries, and setting programming benchmarks at home. The result is not just better representation; it is a deeper recalibration of what stories global cinema dee...