Students of K.R. Narayanan film institute protest at IFFK demanding director’s resignation

[ad_1] Students of K.R. Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, stage a protest at Tagore Theatre, the main venue of the 27th IFFK, in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The students of K.R. Narayanan National Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, who have been on an indefinite strike demanding […]

Continue Reading

IFFK 2022 | Nandita Das interview: “Artists must find ways to tell their story, not succumb to self-censorship”

[ad_1] Nandita Das | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Nandita Das calls herself a “hesitant” actor and filmmaker. Her filmography certainly attests to that claim. In a career spanning 26 years, she has made only three films and acted in 40. There were years in which she did not act in a single film, and others […]

Continue Reading

IFFK 2022: ‘Zwigato’ movie review: Nandita Das’ film tells a poignant story of the new working class

[ad_1] Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami in a scene from Zwigato. Being your own boss and working flexible timings is perhaps the biggest selling point of the app-based gig economy. It also remains its biggest myth, because those who have worked in the sector would perhaps tell you how they are always at the mercy […]

Continue Reading

IFFK 2022 | Ariyippu movie review: Forced in places, yet gets right the treatment of moral failings of humans

[ad_1] Divya Prabha and Kunchacko Boban in Ariyippu. Something about the appearance and the mood of industrial towns generate a sense of disorientation. In Mahesh Narayanan’s Ariyippu (Declaration), screened in the International Competition category at the 27th IFFK, the feeling is accentuated by the constantly running assembly line of a latex glove manufacturing factory in […]

Continue Reading