Indian Filmmaker’s Heartbreaking Story of his Sister’s Agony Scoops International Movie Award
Indian Filmmaker’s Heartbreaking Story of his Sister’s Agony Scoops International Movie Award
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MUMBAI, India A few years ago, a mother of a two-year-old was beaten up and thrown out of the house by her alcoholic husband in the middle of the night at a nondescript village near Melur in Madurai, a city in southern Indian state Tamil Nadu. That night, the woman walked about 13 kilometers (8 miles) to reach her paternal home carrying her child.
Waiting for Godard
Fumigated movie halls and antigentested delegates would be the hallmark of the 25th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), which opens on February 10 at Thiruvananthapuram and would be mirrored in Kochi and Thalassery and Palakkad.
The prestigious festival despite the absence of international guests and programmers promises to be an interesting fare despite the reduced number of films.
Jasmila Zbanic’s ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’ (Where are you going, Aida?) in the backdrop of Bosnia’s brutal genocide would open the festival, which has close to 90 films, half of what a regular festival had. The film, which was completed over many years, tells the story of a woman translator who tries to save her husband and sons during the July 1995 massacre in Srebrenica where an estimated 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed.
PS Vinothraj’s ‘Koozhangal’ bags Tiger Award at Rotterdam Film Festival 2021
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February 08, 2021 12:35 IST
The indie drama, which had its world première at the recently-concluded Rotterdam Film Festival, is being presented by Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan
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A still from ‘Pebbles’ | Photo Credit:
IFFR Press
The indie drama, which had its world première at the recently-concluded Rotterdam Film Festival, is being presented by Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan
Filmmaker PS Vinothraj’s debut feature
Koozhangal aka
Pebbles has won the prestigious Tiger Award, the top honour at the recently-concluded 50th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021. Competing against 16 films that included