The organisers of the 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) apologised on Saturday for incorrectly mentioning the plot of auteur Satyajit Ray’s classic Bengali film Sonar Kella on their website.
Milestone (Meel Pathar), an Indian film, won the Best Film Award at the Silver Screen Awards, the closing event of the Singapore International Film Festival.
On Monday, the IIFFT (International Indian Film Festival Toronto) board announced the list of films that would be premiering at the 8th edition of their annual festival to be held virtually from Aug 9-15, 2020. The list comprised six films – an Indo-American short Padmavyuha and the recent popular Indian docu-film Batch of 2020 – Beyond Degrees & Certificates along with Karthi starrer Kaithi (Tamil), Nani starrer Jersey (Telugu), Hrithik Roshan starrer Super 30 (Hindi) and Fahad Faasil starrer Trance (Malayalam).
On Monday, the IIFFT (International Indian Film Festival Toronto) board announced the list of films that would be premiering at the 8th edition of their annual festival to be held virtually from Aug 9-15, 2020. The list of six films comprised an Indo-American short Padmavyuha and the recent popular Indian docu-film Batch of 2020 – Beyond Degrees & Certificates along with Karthi starrer Kaithi (Tamil), Nani starrer Jersey (Telugu), Hrithik Roshan starrer Super 30 (Hindi) and Fahad Faasil starrer Trance (Malayalam).
The 75th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival came to an end on Saturday. The 11-day long festival celebrated films from across the globe, and gave them a platform to be introduced to the international market. It also witnessed a couple of firsts.
India was the country of honour at its Marché du Film (Film Market) to mark 75 years of both the festival and the country’s independence. This was the first time that the Cannes Film Market had an official country of honour. Future editions of the festival will continue this initiative with different nations honoured each year.
This looks into Poochi’s struggle of getting Kumaresan admission to a private school, after the government school he goes to is looking to shut down, due to a lesser number of students. “I developed the relationship between the grandfather and boy and the portions revolving education, as I wanted the film to touch upon various subjects.
India was the country of honour at the Cannes International Film Festival, owing to 75 years of both the festival, as well as the country’s independence.
Cinematographer Sudeep Chatterjee, who supervised the film’s restoration, tells Silverscreen India about the process of restoration of films in India.”About two months back, I got a call from Mr Prakash Magdum, who used to be the director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI), and he said that they have found these 10 negatives of the later works of Ray.
Anurag Singh Thakur, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Youth and Sports Affairs, announced incentives for audio-visual co-productions and shooting of foreign films in India as part of the ‘Film In India’ initiative, at the India Pavilion, during the ongoing Cannes International Film Festival.
Iranian Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, who was accused of plagiarizing his film, A Hero, has once again denied the allegations, during a press conference held as part of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.
The upcoming edition of the Cannes International Film Festival, which will be held from May 17 to May 28, is set to celebrate India as the country of honour at its Marché du Film (Film Market). It is notable that this year marks the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, as well as 75 years of Indian independence.
However, these “monotonous and melancholic films” of Chaudhuri’s have made quite an impression at international film festivals, including the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, at which he is a regular.Chaudhuri says he prefers the informed audience of a film festival over those that go to regular cinemas.
Malayalam Filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan was released on bail on Friday after being arrested on Thursday in a stalking case filed based on actor Manju Warrier’s complaint.
The upcoming edition of the Cannes International Film Festival will celebrate India as the country of honour at its Marché du Film (Film Market). The festival will also feature an exclusive screening of late filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s 1970 film Pratidwandi (The Adversary).
Actor Deepika Padukone will serve as an international jury member at the upcoming edition of the Cannes International Film Festival, that is to be held from May 17 to May 28.
Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, which was the only Indian film at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, will be screened at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
Films like Lunana, therefore, have to depend on support from outside Bhutan, like film festivals and international distribution companies.Lunana was Bhutan’s second submission ever, and it came more than 23 years after the last one. The Academy told us that since we hadn’t submitted a film for so long, our selection committee had become invalid.
Filmmaker Pa Ranjith, while speaking at the inauguration of the Vaanam Art Festival, at Prasad Film Lab in Chennai, on Saturday, said these kinds of events play an important role in understanding Dalit history.
Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono, who directed actor Nicholas Cage in Prisoners of the Ghostland, has been slapped with multiple allegations of sexual harassment from various female actors, in what can be called Japan’s delayed initiation into the ‘Me Too’ movement.
A draft law to address concerns of sexual harassment in the Malayalam film industry will be ready within a month, Kerala Minister for Culture Saji Cherian told The Hindu.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, through three different orders, completely transferred the mandates of the Films Division, Directorate of Film Festivals, National Film Archives of India, and Children’s Film Society to the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC).
The directors of the Oscar-nominated Indian documentary Writing with Fire have said that they stand by the portrayal of Khabar Lahariya in the film, in response to the rural women-led media house’s statement on innacurate representation.
The science-fiction film, directed by Denis Villeneuve and based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel by the same name, collected over $400 million in worldwide collections.Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is based on Winston Groom’s 1986 novel by the same name, and collected over $678. 2 million at the box office.