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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Interesting fare to look forward to at 14th IDSFFK

Interesting fare to look forward to at 14th IDSFFK

A package of five short films by women filmmakers from India, mentored by Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaff in collaboration with the A.R. Rahman foundation, will be one of the highlights of the 14th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) beginning this Friday. The films under the package titled ‘iTales’ are ‘Shahtoot’, directed […]

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