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On May 13th night, the great and the good of the movie world foregathered at the Cannes film festival, and paired their dinner jackets and designer gowns with 3D glasses - resembling nothing so much as 1970s NHS specs - for the premiere of the opening film, a Pixar animation called Up.
Meanwhile, Isabelle […]

SOYESH H RAWTHER
The sixth Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) held in December 2008, attracted a good number of students from colleges in Chennai. Driven by a passion for films, they thronged the theatres to watch some of the masterpieces of their favourite directors and script writers. “For students of visual communication, the festival offered a […]

WHAT KIND of activism can unite lawyers and filmmakers, artistes and media activists, youth-motivators and film collectives? Bangalore can fuse with their collective spirit through an extraordinary Films for Freedom documentary festival at Jayanagar’s J.S.S. Auditorium from July 29 to August 1.
Challenging censorship
Triggered by the Vikalp Alternate Film Forum in February 2004, when 300 documentary […]

BHUBANESWAR: The third national festival of short and documentary films on art and artistes will be organised here from December 12 to 15. Being hosted by the Film Forum of the city-based Jatin Das Centre of Art (JDCA), Jayadev Bhawan and IDCOL auditorium would be the venues for the event that would include screenings, exhibitions, […]

Kathmandu (PTI): Nepalese capital gears up for the 6th Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) that will start from December 11 to 15 in which more than 60 films would be screened.
The film festival, organised by Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), is coinciding with the International Mountaineering Day on December 11 with a view to promoting […]

BEIJING (Xinhua): Beijing film enthusiasts have a chance to get a break from Hollywood or domestic blockbusters and try some European films.
The first European Film Festival in China opened here on Saturday evening with the Oscar-winning French film “La Mome.” A total of 25 European films will be screened over the next two weeks, each […]

 
Vijay George  
Friendly smiles greet Pradeep Nair as he steps out after watching the Chinese film `Kekexili: Mountain Patrol,’ which is one of the films that was screened in the competition section at the International Film Festival of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram.
It has been quite an eventful year for Pradeep Nair, director of `Oridam.’ The film […]