Cinemascope

 Love, family, friendship and the passion for one’s craft were the overarching themes in The Plough , another delicately textured entry to t...

 Most films that attempt to demonstrate the experiences of marginalized communities have a propensity for depicting them as either angry or ...

  Aattam is based on the topic of sexual harassment at workplace. But, what made Anand Ekarshi’s assured debut feature an especially riveti...

 Devashish Makhija boldly combined bleak social observations and scorching political inquiries with genre elements and narrative urgency – t...

 Jonathan Glazer’s chilling examination of the co-existence of mundane and monstrous – and shattering manifestation of Hannah Arendt’s power...

  Afire , Christian Petzold’s smouldering and mesmeric exploration of artistic aspirations/inadequacies, creative process and self-discovery...

 Celebrated Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland’s powerful and harrowing film Green Border riled up her country’s ruling right-wing polity t...

 The personal couldn’t have been more political, and vice versa, in director-writer duo Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari’s dry, sardonic and d...

" They Shoot Pictures, Don't They ?" (shortened, TPSDT ) - one of the most referenced film websites out there - had approached...

 Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days – described by the amusing witticism “Zen and the art of public toilet maintenance” – is a film that both enthra...

  There’s Still Tomorrow is centred on toxic patriarchy, machismo and domestic violence, which’ve been embedded into Italian society across...

 A temporary escape by a city-dwelling family to the countryside during the summer holidays is never just that in cinema, and Estibaliz Urre...

  The Old Oak is supposedly Loach’s swansong, though – as a profound admirer of the British giant – one ardently hopes not. However, if tha...

 Contrary to what its ominously ironic title supposedly suggests, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi asserted otherwise – viz. evil’s malleable forms and arb...

 Aki Kaurismäki had considered quitting filmmaking after The Other Side of Hope , but had left the door ajar about completing what, along wi...

 1968 was a watershed year for rousing anti-government and anti-establishment protest movements across the world, dominated in most cases by...

 Narratives featuring two difficult individuals who overcome not just their borderline hostilities, but also gain rare insights into the oth...