Slice-of-life films Licorice Pizza and CODA are two of the contenders for Best Picture at the upcoming 94th edition of the Academy Awards, alongside The Power of the Dog.
Wells also reminds Rajesh of how people in his village would often jump into wells and die. “I always thought that they wanted to become one with their reflection,” he says. “For years, paatis (old women) have been the symbol of stories in India.The film made its way to director Pa Ranjith, who runs Neelam Production, through the help of kind friends who offered to talk the film up to the director-producer, says Rajesh.
Cannes International Film Festival has partnered with TikTok in a bid to attract a more diverse audience.
The participation of official Russian entities has been banned in the upcoming editions of The Emmys as well as the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
The curators of the Venice International Film Festival have said in a statement that they will not shut their doors to participants from Russia even though they stand in solidarity with Ukraine against the ongoing Russian invasion.
Ukrainian filmmakers have mobilised provisions and resources for those who are filming the Russian invasion of their country. From food and gasoline, to bulletproof vests and power banks, necessities are being sent across to those who are documenting the ongoing war.
Filmmakers in exile are set to launch the first edition of the Hong Kong Film Festival in the UK. Curators include artists who relocated to the United Kingdom, after Hong Kong imposed the national security law, in 2020.
The Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2022, held in Mumbai on Sunday, saw actors Ranveer Singh and Kriti Sanon take home the Best Actor awards in the male and female categories, respectively, while Allu Arjun’s Pushpa: The Rise won the Film of the Year award.
Alcarras, the Spanish-Italian drama directed by Carla Simon, bagged the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival on Wednesday, and it was among the many top prizes won by women at this year’s edition.
Isabelle Huppert, the French actor who is the recipient of the lifetime achievement award at the Berlin International Film Festival 2022, will attend the event virtually as she tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday.
Neymar, the upcoming Malayalam film starring actors Mathew Thomas and Naslen in the lead roles, will be a family comedy entertainer, director Sudhi Maddison told Silverscreen India.
The film also features Jacqueline Fernandez, Rakul Preet Singh, Ratna Pathak Shah, and Prakash Raj. the film’s release was delayed due to the pandemic but recently, its makers announced that it will be hit theatres on April 1.The film was originally slated for release on December 25, 2020, but it was delayed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The film’s trailer is yet to release, and reports state that the makers might unveil it on February 18.
Kuthiraivaal, the Tamil film starring actor Kalaiarasan in the lead role, is set to hit the big screens on March 4. The film is being produced by Pa Ranjith’s Neelam Productions along with Vignesh Sundaresan’s Yaazhi Films.
Writing with Fire, the Indian documentary film that revolves around a team of reporters who launch India’s sole Dalit women-run newspaper in a media landscape dominated by men, has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the Oscars 2022.
Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, which was the only Indian film at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary award, on Saturday.
The filmmaker, who holds a degree in media production and graphic design, dedicates Hawk’s Muffin to four auteurs: Georges Méliès, for transforming “the elitist visual medium that Lumiere Brothers created into a carnival for the masses,” Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro, “for the dogged anti-war sentiments in their films,” and Andrei Tarkovsky, “for turning cinema into a place of poetry. “While watching the finished film, I realised their work had so much influence, unconscious than conscious, on me as a filmmaker.
Jai Bhim and Marakkar: Arabikadalinte Simhan are among the 276 films in contention for this year’s Oscars, the Academy revealed on Thursday when it put out its list of films eligible for nominations.
Bong Joon-ho, director of the Oscar-winning Korean film Parasite, will work on a science-fiction project next. Backed by Warner Bros, the film is expected to feature actor Robert Pattinson, according to Deadline.
Director Saurav Vishnu confirms to Silverscreen India that Nixon will also lend her voice when Tailing Pond is expanded into a six-part documentary series.The film follows tribal families in the small town of Jadugora and their afflictions as a result of the contamination caused by the tailing ponds that their houses are nestled around.
The Cloud Messenger (Meghdoot), Fahadh Faasil-starrer Malik along with eight other Indian language films have made it to lineup of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2022.
With 2021 being the year India’s local cinema embraced digital platforms and learnt to thrive away from the theatrical landscape, Malayalam cinema grew manifold in terms of reach. It wasn’t just the films of major OTT powerhouses such as Fahadh Faasil or Prithviraj Sukumaran that were widely watched but also smaller films like #Home, headlined by Indrans, and The Great Indian Kitchen. The latter, interestingly, was initially rejected by several mainstream OTT platforms for its low profile. After it premiered on a new platform NeeStream, it quickly took the social media platforms by storm.
Starring Satya Dev, Nithya Menen and Rahul Ramakrishna, it is a period comedy-drama set in a village in Telangana against the backdrop of the Skylab incident. Silverscreen India’s Sankeertana called the film “well-made” in her review and added that it “celebrates stories, big and small. ” On the filmmaker’s writing, she said, “The way Vishwak writes his characters reminded me of Jhandyala; how most of his characters are caricatures, yet fully-realised human beings.
Silverscreen India termed this hour-long film “short in length, long in depth. ” Starring actor Vijay Sethupathi, his daughter Sreeja Vijay Sethupathi and actor Regina Cassandra, it is helmed by debutant filmmaker Karthik S and revolves around a family and the dog that they adopt.In an earlier conversation with Silverscreen India, Ashwin said that the film first took form as a seven-minute short called Ward Enn 325 in 2011 before he decided to explore it further as a feature. “Films don’t create revolution, but they are thought-inducing,” the filmmaker added.
Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Afghan filmmaker who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul last August, has travelled all her life.At the San Sebastian Film Festival, one of her first public appearances since she fled Afghanistan, Sadat mentioned that Kabul Jan will portray the “first kiss in Afghan film history”.
Gangubai Kathiawadi, headlined by Alia Bhatt and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, is set to have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2022, the curators announced on Wednesday.