Thrissur: 23 feature, 20 non-feature films have been selected for the screening in the 51st International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Goa. Information and Broadcasting Minister, Prakash Javadekar announced the list of selected films in a press conference. The selected films will...
Legendary South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk, who had fan following across the world for his provocative films laced with sex, violence and animal cruelty, has died after the complications from Covid19. He was 59. His world-famous films include Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring, The Isle...
Prestigious South Asian Film Festival of Montreal, popularly called as SAFFMontreal, will be staged this year as an online festival which will open its curtains on Thursday, 19 November. The ten-day-long festival will end on November 29. This time the festival is open to worldwide audiences...
Kolkata: The 16th Edition of International Film Festival of Thrissur (IFFT), the second largest and longest film festival of Kerala will be held from 20-24 March, 2021. The organizers informed that the festival will be on hybrid-mode with both physical and online film screening, events...
Legendary Indian actor from Bengal, Soumitra Chatterjee breathed his last on Sunday at 12.15 pm in South Kolkata. With the death of Soumitra Chatterjee, the curtains have indeed come down on a golden era of cinema in Bengal. The 85-year-old actor was admitted to hospital in...
International Film Festival of Thrissur (IFFT), organization conducts Kerala’s second biggest film festival, condoled the demise of the Argentine film director Fernando Solanas. In the meeting organisers remembered that with the death of Solanes, the world lost another strong voice of third world cinema. Solanes who pioneered...
Thrissur: Orange Film Academy, Kerala’s first e-learning school for film studies, was inaugurated by filmmaker and KSFDC Chairman, Shaji N Karun in an online ceremony on Sunday. “As far as cinema is concerned, learning is the most relevant thing. Nowadays the idea that exists there is...
A press conference by IFFT-Orange officials announced the Kerala’s first e-learning film school , a joint venture of International Film Festival Thrissur (IFFT) and Orange Film Academy & Research Centre, and an exclusive OTT/Virtual screen platform. Both will be launched in an online fuction on...
Kerala’s first venture of online training on various film-making courses, a joint venture of International Film Festival Thrissur (IFFT) and Orange Film Academy & Research Centre, will be launched on Sunday, 1st November,2020. Renowned filmmaker Shaji N Karun, Chairman, KSFDC, will inaugurate the Orange Film Academy...
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...
51st International Film Festival of India, Goa called for entries for Indian Panorama in both feature and non-feature sections. The FIAPF-accredited competitive, Feature Film Festival will be held from 20 November to 28 November. The 51st edition of the festival which includes a competition for feature...
In an attempt to keep Indians engaged during lockdown and attract Indians towards Korean Cinema, The Consulate of Korea in Chennai has announced the launch of a Korean Cinema review writing competition. The competition is meant for film buffs who are showing a keen interest in...
The Macedonian Student Ethnological Society (MSES) is proud to announce the 6th edition of the International festival of student ethnographic films - "ETNOFF 6", which is scheduled for October 2020 in Skopje. The current COVID-19 crisis makes even short-term planning impossible. However, we hope to be...
Theatre legend Ebrahim Alkazi, who credited for revolutionising theatre in India, passed away on Tuesday. He was 94. He succumbed to a heart attack at the Escorts Hospital in New Delhi. Padmavibhushan Alkazi became one of the most prominent theatre artistes in Mumbai during the 1940s...
Thirty first edition of the Singapore International Film Festival’s (SGIFF) call for the entry films will be closing on August 24. The 31st edition of Singapore International Film Festival will be held from 26 November to 6 December 2020. SGIFF welcomes Asian films and Southeast Asian...
The line-up of the films participate in the competition section of the 77th Venice Film Festival (September 2-12) for Golden Lion has been announced. Venice will be one of the first major film festivals to take place as a physical event following the Covid-19 outbreak....
