The film ‘Vasanthi’ was chosen as the best film in the 50th Kerala State Film Awards that announced on Tuesday by Minister for Cultural Affairs A.K.Balan on Tuesday. While the popular actor Suraj Venjaramoodu won the best actor (male) award, Kani Kusruthi won the best actor...
Bringing proud moment for the Indian film industry, Young Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane’s feature film ‘The Disciple’ has won two awards at the prestigious Venice Film Festival. [caption id="attachment_1078" align="aligncenter" width="150"] Chaitanya Tamhane, Film Director[/caption] The two awards include the Best Screenplay award and the International Critics'...
One of the leading figures of Czech New Wave Cinema and the Oscar-winning director Jiri Menzel passed away on Saturday after a long illness. He was 82. He succumbed to his bad health after a brain surgery. Confirming his death, his wife Olga Menzelova wrote on...
By turning camera on Wuhan City in China, just after the outbreak of Covid 19, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has created a new controversy through his documentary film ‘Coronation’. In the film, he reveals the militarized and often brutal nature of the Chinese government by...
Kolkata: Father of film studies in India, Father Gaston Roberge, passed away on Wednesday, 26 August in Kolkata. He was 85. Father Gaston Roberge, a missionary set up India’s oldest media and film training institute called ‘Chitrabani’ in 1970 at Calcutta. Chitrabani introduced ideas and projects...
International Thai Film Festival(ITFF) will be held as a virtual film event this year. The five-day long event will be from September 11 to 15, 2020. This year as an Online Film Event, the festival will showcase a colorful selection of quality film productions from around...
Following the footsteps of the trend of conducting film festivals as an online event across the world due to Covid-19 pandemic, Kerala Government also may hold much-anticipated 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) as an online event. Indicating the plan, Minister for...
The Online Festival of Satyajit Ray films oragnised by the Federation of Film Societies of India, Keralam has begun on Thursday, August 20 to mark the 100th birth anniversary of legendary filmmaker, Satyajith Ray. The film festival began with the screening of Satyajit Ray’s first and...
The first-ever online film festival, Docuscape, organised by the Kerala State Chalachithra Academy will begin on Friday. Twenty-nine films will be screened online over eight days, Cultural Minister A K Balan, who will inaugurate the Docuscape at 4pm on Friday on Website 29 films will...
Two Argentine filmmakers, Lucrecia Martel’s “Chocobar” and Mari Alessandrini’s “Zahori,” films explore the theme race, won the top Pardo 2020 Awards at the Locarno Film Festival competition. Both the films were chosen for the top prize in the category ‘The Films after Tomorrow’, a competition...
