Rakesh Sharma, jury chairperson, Non-Fiction, presenting the Award for Best Long Documentary at the 16th IDSFFK to Anand Patwardhan for The World is Family. Anand Patwardhan’s Vasudhaiva Kudumbakam(The World is Family), a deeply personal history of the filmmaker’s family that is intertwined with the history of the nation, has been chosen for the Best Long…
A good number of the film buffs who walked into Kairali Theatre on Monday morning to catch a long documentary listed as part of the competition section at the 16th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) were in for a surprise. The synopsis in the festival booklet for Lalit Vachani’s Prisoner No….
A protest movement, especially one as big as the historic farmers’ protest that began in 2020, might not reveal all it strands when looked at from the frontlines. Much of the immediate reporting during the days of the protest, against a set of laws enacted by the Union government, were on the demands of the…
Cinema, or any other art form for that matter, does not easily lend itself to become tools of oppression. Despite the existence of films filled with hate propaganda, the free spirit inherent in these art forms invariably produces works that would break free of the tight control and produce subversive art. Spanish filmmaker Luis E.Pares’s…
Wildlife filmmakers Bedi Brothers (Naresh Bedi and Rajesh Bedi). | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Most people would run away from the prospect of spending harsh winters in the higher altitudes, but Bedi Brothers (Naresh Bedi and Rajesh Bedi), acclaimed wildlife filmmakers, spent three consecutive winters in the higher reaches of Ladakh, braving a difficult terrain,…
