October 24, 2022
I remember watching Shaunak Sen’s first film, Cities of Sleep , in a college auditorium in New York, where Sen and his friends walked around with
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January 24, 2022Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are this year’s recipients of IDA’s Courage Under Fire Award . Their film Writing With Fire is the story of Khabar
November 22, 2021“Really… I feel reluctant… coming to receive you… as my interviewers or crew… Because ever since my exposure to the camera…. As an internationally
November 17, 2021Watching Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing has been nothing less than transformative. Not because it compels one to think beyond the realms
August 15, 2021This Sunday, August 15th, 2021 India celebrates 74 years of its independence from British imperial rule. It has been an incredibly challenging year
June 28, 2021"On the 7th of August 1941, in the city of Calcutta, a man died," begins Satyajit Ray’s 1961 documentary Rabindranath Tagore (1961). The eponymous
October 2, 2020Continuing the theme of #DecolonizeDocs that was first initiated at Getting Real ‘18, the 2020 edition’s first focused session on the South Asian
November 28, 2004On the historic midnight of August 14 and 15, 1947, India became independent from British rule. First Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's speech
March 1, 1999In a country producing more than 600 feature films a year, in an incredible array of 23 languages, the Indian documentary film has always been a poor