OTT platforms and traditional cinema theatres to co-exist: Director Mahesh Narayanan at IFFI
Nov 25, 2022, at 02:57 pm
Panaji: Online streaming platforms and traditional cinema theatres are going to co-exist, said Mahesh Narayanan, Director of the film Ariyippu which is being screened at the Indian Panorama section of 53rd International Film Festival of India.
Nov 25, 2022, at 02:51 pm
Panaji: Speaking about the inspiration behind his Maithili feature-film ‘Lotus Blooms’, Director Pratik Sharma said that the thought was to portray the emotional journey of a person’s life with nature and people as witness.
IFFI: Greek film Behind The Haystacks touches the raw realities of 2015 migrant crisis
Nov 25, 2022, at 02:25 pm
Panaji: Behind The Haystacks, is a social drama set in the background of 2015-migrant crisis of Greece when European countries had closed their borders, because of which, migrants and refugees had gathered at the northern border of Greece.
Fauda S4 to premiere at the International Film Festival of India
Nov 21, 2022, at 02:19 am
Panaji: Fauda S4 will premiere at the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
IFFI 53: Film Personality of the Year Award goes to southern star Chiranjeevi
Nov 21, 2022, at 02:10 am
Panaji: IFFI Indian Film Personality of the Year Award for 2022 went to southern megastar and actor-producer Chiranjeevi Konidela.
IFFI: Spanish film director Carlos Saura honoured with Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award
Nov 21, 2022, at 02:05 am
Panaji: Celebrated Spanish film Director Carlos Saura has been honoured with the prestigious Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award at the gala opening ceremony of 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa today, 20 November, 2022.
'The Fablemans' to premiere at TIFF 2022 with Steven Spielberg in maiden attendance
Aug 31, 2022, at 02:43 pm
Toronto: The three-time academy award winning director Steven Speilberg is set to make a debut appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2022 with what is being described as his most personal film 'The Fablemans'.
Aug 27, 2022, at 03:18 pm
Toronto: Back for its seventh year, the excitement and fun of the Toronto International Film Festival pours out from the theatres onto Festival Street and over to David Pecaut Square.
Hildur Guðnadóttir to receive TIFF Variety Artisan Award
Aug 27, 2022, at 03:03 pm
Toronto: Cameron Bailey, CEO of TIFF, has announced that Academy Award–winning Icelandic artist and composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will be honoured with the Variety Artisan Award, and that Award-winning Welsh Egyptian filmmaker and screenwriter Sally El Hosaini will be honoured with the TIFF Emerging Talent Award presented by MGM at the annual TIFF Tribute Awards.
Regional children's film 'Gandhi & Co' gets screened at Melbourne, Toronto film festivals
Aug 24, 2022, at 12:14 am
New Delhi/UNI: Producer Mahesh Danannavar and Director Manish Saini’s award-winning Gujarati film for children ‘Gandhi & Co’ continues to garner international acclaim.
Divya Dutta, Arunaraje Patil announce KASHISH 2022 film festival starting June 1
May 28, 2022, at 04:56 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The 13th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival was announced at a press conference on Friday by national award-winning actress and director Divya Dutta, national award-winning director Arunaraje Patil, and festival director Sridhar Rangayan.
Ricky Kej clinches second Grammy award of his career
Apr 04, 2022, at 02:56 pm
Indian music composer Ricky Kej clinched the Grammy award for the second time in his career on Sunday.
Kolkata’s Mohammad Ali Park to house the popular Durga Puja again
Oct 07, 2021, at 04:43 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: One of Kolkata’s popular Durga Puja mandap (marquee) returns to its famous venue inside Mohammad Ali Park, this year.
Sep 29, 2021, at 04:41 am
TorontoIBNS: Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2021's film 'Kicking Blood,' directed and screen-played by Blaine Thurier, belongs to a vampire genre in which the director reimagines vampire mythology with ultra-modern spin transplanting it to the unconventional and unorthodox world he has satirized since he began making films.
Juries from FIPRESCI and NETPAC select TIFF 2021 award winners
Sep 22, 2021, at 05:37 am
Toronto/IBNS: Award winners for work screened at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2021 were announced jointly last week by TIFF, the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), and the Network for the Promotion of Asia Pacific Cinema (NETPAC).
Sep 16, 2021, at 04:34 am
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 (TIFF 2021)'s animated drama 'Charlotte', directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, is the true and heartbreaking story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German Jewish painter, gifted with a wild imagination and grand ambitions, who created radiating masterpiece against all odds of private turmoil and Nazis' seizure of power in Germany.
TIFF 2021 documentary 'Attica' examines the largest prison uprising in U.S. history by inmates
Sep 11, 2021, at 05:43 am
Toronto/IBNS: Directed and produced by Stanley Nelson, Toronto International Film Festival 2021 (TIFF 2021)'s documentary film 'Attica' is being premiered in Scotiabank Theatre Toronto at 9 a.m. and at TIFF Digital Cinema Pro at 10 a.m. Friday, with a digital second screening at digital TIFF Bell Lightbox on Sep 16.
KASHISH 2021 to kick off in grand style with a virtual opening ceremony
Aug 19, 2021, at 05:26 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The 12th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia’s biggest LGBBTQIA+ film festival will have its grand opening ceremony on August 19 on their YouTube and Facebook channels @kashishfilmfest.
TIFF 2021 to celebrate Abenaki artist-activist Alanis Obomsawin in special TIFF Cinematheque
Aug 12, 2021, at 04:23 am
Toronto/IBNS: The 46th edition of Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) would be presenting a special TIFF Cinematheque retrospective of Abenaki artist, filmmaker, singer, writer, and activist Alanis Obomsawin, entitled Celebrating Alanis.
Satya Rai Nagpaul brings diversity to KASHISH 2021 Jury featuring LGBTQIA+ films
Aug 06, 2021, at 05:12 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The 12th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival is all set to open on Aug 19 for a virtual film festival of 12 days, screening 221 films from 53 countries.
Ritesh Batra and Gauri Shinde join Kashish 2021 Jury to honour LGBTQIA+ films
Jul 30, 2021, at 06:38 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The 12th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival which is being organized online this year from Aug 19 to Sept 5, spread over 3 weekends, will screen 221 LGBTQIA+ films from across 53 countries.
Stephen Chbosky’s Dear Evan Hansen to be Opening Night Gala Presentation for TIFF 2021
Jul 22, 2021, at 05:30 am
Toronto/IBNS: The feature-film adaptation of the Tony Award–winning musical 'Dear Evan Hansen' would be the Opening Night Gala Presentation at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) to be screened on Sept 9 at Roy Thomson Hall, Co-Heads Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente has announced.
TIFF 2021 to present films, talks on Asian excellence in cinema throughout May
May 04, 2021, at 04:38 am
Toronto/IBNS: In recognition of May as Asian Heritage Month (AHM), 2021 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) presents a series of films and talks celebrating Asian excellence in cinema.
Kashish Trans Fest brings visibility about transgender community
Mar 31, 2021, at 04:19 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival is celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility on Wednesday with a daylong online program of film screenings and discussion titled Kashish Trans*Fest.
IFFI to pay tributes to legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray
Jan 13, 2021, at 11:05 pm
New Delhi: The 51st International Film Festival of India will pay tributes to legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, official announced on Wednesday.
26th KIFF: Mulk and Anubhav Sinha
Jan 12, 2021, at 09:10 pm
Mulk directed by Anubhav Sinha with a track record of 20 years in Bollywood, is the tribute being paid to the memory of the versatile and talented Rishi Kapoor who passed away of cancer last year. Sinha was chosen to deliver the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture at the 26th KIFF this year. The subject he spoke on was “Social Responsibility and Mainstream Indian Cinema”. So, it was a double whammy for Sinha. He admitted in his address that the main attraction for him to deliver the speech was that his name would appear alongside Satyajit Ray on the posters, announcements and notices.
26th KIFF Bitter Sweet: An explosive film by Ananth Mahadevan
Jan 12, 2021, at 09:07 pm
Ananth Mahadevan, a theatre actor who shifted to television, cinema and OTT platforms and also turned to writing scripts, is now a reputed filmmaker in his own right whose film Mai Ghat/Crime No 203 has been acclaimed across the world including a top award at the 25th KIFF now comes with his latest film Bittersweet which establishes, with documented proof, that the sweetness of sugar disguises the sharp bitterness that consumes the lives of men and women, specially women, who work in the sugar farms in Beed, Maharashtra, which supplies 50% of the sugar produced by Maharasthra.
Renuka Shahane and Onir join Kashish Advisory Board
Jan 07, 2021, at 04:47 am
Mumbai/IBNS: South Asia's biggest LGBTQIA film festival Kashish on Wednesday announced that popular actress Renuka Shahane and national award-winning filmmaker Onir have joined its Advisory Board, along with previous board members like theater personality Dolly Thakore, National award-winning filmmaker Arunaraje Patil, president of Whistling Woods Meghna Ghai Puri and communications specialist Roy Wadia.
Film submissions open for Kashish Mumbai Queer Film Fest 2021
Dec 25, 2020, at 05:23 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The 12th edition of KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival will be held from May 20th to 30th 2021 online considering the still prevailing pandemic situation.
Sep 17, 2020, at 04:04 am
Toronto/IBNS: The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Tribute Awards ceremony, an annual fundraiser which supports both TIFF's year-round programming, as well as the organization’s core mission to transform the way people see the world through film, was held on Wednesday and was streamed internationally by Variety at 8:30 pm ET .