Made in Bollywood, but sub-titled for the world
Bollywood's clout is spreading beyond Indians in the US, the UK the UAE and Australia. For, movies such as My Name...
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The Urge for Survival: Japanese movies about the horrors of at home
Kaneto Shindo's melodramas are about war, but they're not about combat or fighting. In focusing on the domestic aftermath of violence,...
Cannes takes an Indian film as an afterthought
In what seems like a consolation prize for Indian cinema, a feature produced by Shekhar Kapur exclusively for the 64th edition...
Shanghai Film Festival Launches Mobile Film Competition
Organizers of the first mobile phone film competition at The 14th Shanghai International Film Festival will accept submissions until April 30...
Japanese Survivors Shaded by Puzzlement and Sorrow
Kaneto Shindo's "Children of Hiroshima" was released in Japan in 1952, when the memories of World War II and the dropping...
Event introduces overseas film industry to Chinese cinema
A total of 62 Chinese films, including director Feng Xiaogang's high-grossing comedy If You Are the One II, have been selected...
Filming social changes
Calls for social change have been with us over the centuries; it is seen in history's peasant uprisings, revolutions, suffragette demonstrations...
10 Things Wrong With the MPAA Rating System
The Motion Picture Association of America's ratings system exists in a paradox: the classifications, originally intended to help parents, have now...
Call for Entries for the 8th Singapore Short Cuts ““ Presented by The National Museum of Singapore Cinémathèque and The Substation Moving Images
The National Museum Cinémathèque and The Substation Museum Moving Images invite budding filmmakers to participate in the 8th Singapore Short Cuts....
Hindi-Hindie: The Emergence of Independent Films
For years there have been big budget commercial Bollywood blockbusters that have garnered attention and praise from moviegoers and critics alike,...
Bangladeshi war film Meherjaan rekindles old enmities
When Bangladeshi film Meherjaan was released in January this year, it was a great moment for the director Rubaiyat Hossain. It was...
Korean Film Takes Top Prize at Indie Film Fest in Poland
The film "The Journals of Musan" by Korean director Park Jung-bum won the grand prize at the Off Plus Camera Festival in...