International Film Festival of Kerala

A still from Anatomy of a FallCan authors or filmmakers be judged for the thoughts or actions of the characters that they create? In recent days, this question has been asked over and over…

Express News Service Several Malayalam filmmakers extended support to students of KR Narayanan National Film Institute of Visual Science and Arts, Kottayam, who have…

Bela Tarr the person comes across as a starkly different being from the image conveyed by his deeply contemplative and philosophical works. Here is a straight-talking auteur who uses his…

Unjust laws and practices imposed by repressive fascist regimes sometimes survive beyond their time, until pushback from the victims and the larger society bring in incremental changes. Two…

Kapil Sharma and Shahana Goswami in a scene from Zwigato. Being your own boss and working flexible timings is perhaps the biggest selling point of the app-based gig economy. It also remains…

Nandita Das | Photo Credit: S.R. Praveen Nandita Das calls herself a “hesitant” actor and filmmaker. Her filmography certainly attests to that claim. In a career spanning 26 years, she has…

By Express News Service The highly-anticipated Mammootty-Lijo Jose Pellissery film Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam had its world premiere on Monday at the ongoing 27th…

A filmmaker appearing as himself for the entirety of a film might be forgiven the first time. The second time around, he is sure to attract some amount of ridicule for his vanity. But then,…

Jonny Best | Photo Credit: S.R.Praveen Jonny Best sits at a corner of the screen, unobtrusively, almost like a member of the audience. Only that, he has a key role to play in guiding the…

Divya Prabha and Kunchacko Boban in Ariyippu. Something about the appearance and the mood of industrial towns generate a sense of disorientation. In Mahesh Narayanan’s Ariyippu…