Top 10 all-India films 2020
Here are my top 10 All India and South Asian films of 2020. Note that it has been an exceptional year because of COVID-19, with theatrical, festival, online and related film screenings of 2020 and 2021 delayed or in a flux. Despite everything, filmmakers still made films-and miracles happened.
1. THE DISCIPLE by Chaitanya Tamhane, Marathi: Was in the main competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won Best Screenplay and the FIPRESCI Film Critics’ Award. Executive Producer Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuaron. About a devoted Hindustani classical music vocalist who finds his commitment to his art challenged in today’s times.
2. NASIR by Arun Karthick, Tamil: Was in the Rotterdam Film Festival’s Tiger Competition, where it won the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film. About a gentle, hardworking Muslim, textile salesman and poet in Coimbatore, who is stabbed to death by Hindu fundamentalists.
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‘Virtual Platforms Made it Possible’: The Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati The largest Indian film festival in the state of Ohio
The Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati is the only Indian film festival held in Ohio. Organized and hosted by the India Cincinnati Sister cities in collaboration with the Art Museum, the festival premiers feature, documentary and short films made in and about the South Asian subcontinent or its peoples. It just finished a successful virtual run from October 15 to November 1.
Ratee Apana, executive director of the Indian Film Festival of Cincinnati, talks to Uma da Cunha about her journey in introducing Indian cinema to her local film aficionados.