Tag: Film Festival

Guwahati film fest begins with screening of Lokmanya

The second edition of Guwahati Film Festival began at ‘Jyoti Chitraban’ premises in the city on Friday evening with the screening of Om Rout’s acclaimed movie ‘Lokmanya-Ek Yugpurush’. Organised by Chalachitram, the three-day festival includes showcasing of 75 films along with cinema related discussions and award ceremonies. The inaugural ceremony was addressed by Rashtriya Swayamsevak …

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March 4, 2018

‘Sultan’ wins three awards at Tehran film fest

Sultan director Ali Abbas Zafar and its actors Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma emerged winners at the Tehran International Sports Film Festival. Zafar won a Honorary Diploma for the Best Director of Long Narrative, while Salman and Anushka won the Best Actor and Diploma in the Long Narrative section and the Best Actress trophy and …

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January 22, 2018

Punjabi director Navtej Singh Sandhu aims for another win at Cannes

This year the Cannes Film Festival, starting 9 May, will be screening two Punjabi short films – Chamm and Gawachi Pagg directed by Navtej Singh Sandhu. The film Chamm is on the story of a Dalit’s struggle but the main attention taker is Gawachi Pagg that is an emotional tale picked from an incident during Operation Blue Star in …

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January 10, 2018

‘Jonaki’ to have world premiere at Rotterdam film fest

Filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Jonaki” will have its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2018. “Jonaki” is the second feature film of the National Award winning director, whose first feature “Labour of Love” won 13 international awards. The film, an Indo-French-Singaporean co-production, stars Jim Sarbh and sees the 81-year-old actress Lolita Chatterjee …

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January 8, 2018

The power of a dream

Someone who developed a passion for exploring the mysteries of the moon through a telescope that his teacher, a Jesuit priest, had installed in an observatory at St Xavier’s College back in the 1950s soon discovered a universe of opportunities after he graduated with an engineering degree from Shibpur. From the humble roots in Chittagong …

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December 15, 2017

Bengaluru festival celebrates experimental cinema

Dubbed as India’s first and only international biennial celebrating experimental films and moving image art in India, Experimenta kicks off on Tuesday. The festival offers over 70 contemporary and rare historical films from across the world over 6 days at the Goethe Institute Max Mueller Bhavan here. The programme sections include Artist Profiles and Talks, Curated …

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November 28, 2017

A cultural exchange

Films are the best way to introduce culture. This was evident at the recently concluded Nordic-Baltic Youth Film Festival in Delhi. Organised for the first time in India by Nordic and Baltic embassies in Delhi, in collaboration with the India Habitat Centre, the film festival witnessed some of the finest films from these countries.  Through …

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November 27, 2017

Come November

Another edition of the Kolkata film festival has come and gone with a package of attractions that never appeared to have dimmed after a continuous run for 23 years. This is regarded as a film city – one that spawned the film society movement and saw Renoir shooting near the Hooghly nearly seven decades ago. …

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November 20, 2017

Two-day Northeast film festival in Delhi from Aug 18

Film buffs in Delhi will get an opportunity to watch several award-winning documentaries and features from the Northeast at a festival this week. “The Fresh Lens: New Cinematic Voices from Northeast India” is being organised by the India International Centre and the North East Media Forum from August 18-19. “This festival presents some significant voices …

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August 16, 2017

Delhi’s IHC to host international film festival

The India Habitat Centre has announced the premiere edition of Habitat International Film Festival (HIFF), to begin here from March 24 with the screening of Asghar Farhadi's Oscar winning film The Salesman. The 10-day festival, which will conclude on April 2, aims to bring together carefully hand-picked world cinema which has witnessed critical acclaim across …

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March 16, 2017

‘Indian Panorama’ film festival to begin on February 6

 'Indian Panorama,' the three day annual film festival, will be inaugurated here on February 6 by Chief Minister V Narayanasamy The festival is being conducted by the Directorate of Information and Publicity of the territorial government in association with Puducherry based Navadarshan Film Society and Alliance Francaise. A release from the Directorate said today that a cash …

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February 3, 2017

At the Premiere

January 27, 2017

Mirror to a child’s world

The Theatre for Children and Young Audiences, dubbed TIFLI, held a week-long festival at Bal Bhavan in the Capital from 4 to 10 December. In the balmy winter sun the sprawling lawns were witness to high voltage energy, laughter and a trip down memory lane. Tifli means childhood. It is also synonymous with creative expression. …

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December 15, 2016

Piyush Mishra lights up DIQTFF 2016 on Day 1

The Delhi International Queer Theatre and Film Festival (DIQTFF) started on an exciting note at the NCUI Auditorium & Convention Centre here on Saturday as legendary actor/storyteller Piyush Mishra graced its opening. The two-day event will showcase selective films and theatre work based on the LQBTQI community in India. DIQTFF got a great support as …

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December 10, 2016