Sumitra Bhave. Photo: By special arrangement
Sumitra Bhave and her long-time collaborator Sunil Sukthankar.
A still from “Ek Cup Chya”. The film’s social philosophy can be read as a blend of Gandhian moderation and Marxian vigour.
A scene from ‘“Vastupurush”. Sumitra Bhave gives life to the rural ethos sought to be evoked through a family history embracing several generations, complete with Brahmin masters, faithful retainers and other ‘lesser mortals’. Photo: by special arrangement
A scene from “Kaasav”. The film won the Golden Lotus Award for the best feature film at the 64th National Film awards in 2017.
Mohan Agashe in ‘Astu’.
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Shu-Fang Chen in Big Little Women (Netflix)
On January 7, 2021, the streaming giant Netflix revealed that it would exclusively stream Taiwan’s highest-grossing box office film of 2020 Little Big Women . The film first premiered on October 22, 2020, at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, and then screened at the Taoyuan Film Festival on October 23, 2020, in Taiwan. It was also shown at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on November 14, 2020, and is now set to make its global release. Here is all you need to know about the film.
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According to Netflix, it s Based on director Joseph Chen-chieh Hsu’s personal experience, Little Big Women tells the story of how a family grapples with and eventually accepts the fact that their recently deceased grandfather was having an affair, exploring how the grandmother overcomes this grudge and learns to accept the other woman. Diving into how a generation of women free themselves
Update: December, 14/2020 - 08:28 | Young actress Trúc Anh performs in Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes), a film about the love story of Ngạn, a rural boy from Quảng Nam Province, and his childhood friend, Hà Lan, in the 1980s. Photo courtesy of Galaxy Studio By Thu Anh HCM CITY
Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes), a production of HCM City-based film agency Galaxy Studio, will compete in the Best Foreign Language Film Category at the Oscar awards ceremony in March 2021, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The film, directed by Vietnamese-American Victor Vũ, was released in December last year. It earned a record VNĐ50 billion (US$2.1 million) in the first three days of its release and was listed among the industry’s top 10 blockbusters with more than VNĐ127 billion ($5.5 million) at the box office.