Ian Jack

In India, films about poverty used to cause great offence. But not Slumdog Millionire.

A foreign director comes to India and shoots a film that in part depicts considerable cruelty, poverty and squalor. The Indian government is outraged when the BBC broadcasts the film. There are official protests; severe restrictions are imposed on the […]

New Delhi (PTI) Come December and India will host for the first time a retrospective of films by a Bangladeshi director who will also be the first cinema personality from the eastern neighbour to be given the honour of inaugurating a film festival in this country.
Tanvir Mokammel, the director and a leading figure of the […]

 
Geetika Chandrahasan
At 30, he watched his first film in a theatre. Six years later came Kim ki-Duk’s first brush with filmmaking, resulting in his debut feature `Crocodile’ (1996). In the short span thereafter, this South Korean director has established himself as one of the most compelling filmmakers of our times.
The 10th International Film Festival of […]