IDSFFK 2025: Dalit Subbaiah wins award for best long documentary, Amma’s Pride best short documentary

IDSFFK 2025: Dalit Subbaiah wins award for best long documentary, Amma’s Pride best short documentary

The team behind the documentary Dalit Subbaiah receiving the award for the Best Long Documentary at the 17th edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) which concluded in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday. Dalit Subbaiah – Voice of the Rebels, a documentary on the singer Lenin Subaiah, directed by M.K.P. Gridaran, won […]

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IDSFFK 2025: ‘Rewritten’, an honest retelling of generational damsels and their self-salvation

IDSFFK 2025: ‘Rewritten’, an honest retelling of generational damsels and their self-salvation

Stills from Rewritten | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Damsels in distress are characters from fairytales. The slumbering princess, awaits the arrival of ‘Prince Charming’ to awaken her. However, Rewritten by Yara Nisam, which premiered in the Malayalam Non-Competition Short Fiction category at the 17th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), looks at […]

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2002 Gujarat carnage was communal violence at another scale, shook me to my core, says filmmaker Rakesh Sharma at IDSFFK 2025

2002 Gujarat carnage was communal violence at another scale, shook me to my core, says filmmaker Rakesh Sharma at IDSFFK 2025

Documentary filmmaker Rakesh Sharma. | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Faced with communal violence in his neighbourhood in Mumbai in 1992, Rakesh Sharma’s first instinct was to organise a relief camp, which he and his friends ran at Jogeshwari for about a year, until new homes were built for the victims. They lent legal help too, […]

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IDSFFK 2025: Bedabrata Pain’s Deja Vu looks at farm protests from a fresh angle

IDSFFK 2025: Bedabrata Pain’s Deja Vu looks at farm protests from a fresh angle

A scene from Bedabrata Pain’s Deja Vu The historic protest of Indian farmers in 2020-21 against the three farm laws enacted by the Union government had inspired some remarkable documentaries, which have been showcased in the past editions of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK). This year’s edition features a documentary […]

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