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

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

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 the […]

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

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

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 in […]

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

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

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 of […]

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

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

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 the […]

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