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Radu Judes film - Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Berlinale: A teacher, a porn clip and the hypocrisy of a nation

Radu Jude's 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn', won the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 71st International Film...

5 March 2021 9:28 PM IST

Indian journalist Priya Ramani, left, smiles as she leaves Patiala House Court in New Delhi, India. A New Delhi court on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, acquitted Ramani of criminal defamation after she accused a former editor-turned-politician and junior external affairs minister of sexual harassment. M.J. Akbar, now 70, filed a case against Ramani in Oct. 2018, denying the allegations as false, baseless and wild.(AP)

#Metoo: Court throws out Akbar's defamation case against Ramani

Reacting to the verdict, Ramani said it feels great to have truth validated before the court

17 Feb 2021 9:37 PM IST

Churuli movie poster

Churuli: When gibberish pretends to have meaning

The eagle eye view injects mystery and suspense to the film

13 Feb 2021 9:28 PM IST

Nawazuddin Sheikh (left) and Aakshath Das play the lead roles in Sudhir Mishras film Serious Men.

'Serious Men' review: Ancient prejudice posing as a post-liberal...

Sudhir Mishra's film based on Manu Joseph's book tells the story of a calculative Dalit on the sidelines of science

4 Oct 2020 1:40 PM IST

Greta Thunberg.

TIFF Diary | Meet Greta, a real pain the a*se' of world leaders

'I Am Greta' challenges the rightwing's concerted attempts to dehumanise this incredible school kid

19 Sept 2020 6:21 PM IST

A scene from Mr Jones, Agnieszka Hollands film about truth and propaganda.

TIFF Diary: The mendacity of Duranty and the truth of Mr Jones

Agnieszka Holland's film 'Mr Jones' takes us back to a famine in Ukraine of the early 1990s

16 Sept 2020 12:16 AM IST

Woman director Miwa Nishikawas Under The Open Sky explores the life of an ex-yakuza as he returns to the world after serving a jail sentence for murder.

TIFF Diary: At last, the female gaze upon the world of yakuza

In Under the Open Sky, Miwa Nishikawa makes a foray into a genre that has until now been the preserve of alpha-male...

14 Sept 2020 9:52 AM IST

Regina King, director of One Night in Miami. (AP file photo)

TIFF diary: The audacity of Regina King and an imagined evening

'One Night In Miami', about a fictional conversation between Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Jim Brown, Cassius Clay is a...

12 Sept 2020 4:35 PM IST

A still from Tove, a Swedish-language film about an illustrators life of tumult in the years after WWII.

TIFF Diary: Here at last, a film fest you can watch in your pajamas

The Toronto International Film Festival gets going with digital screenings and virtual red carpets

11 Sept 2020 2:45 PM IST

Churails is a Pakistani series streaming on Zee5.

The feminism of Churails: Sometimes fiery, sometimes faux

But towards that end, it's is an excellent start

7 Sept 2020 12:31 AM IST

Still from Sadak 2

Sadak 2: This road to boredom is paved with eighties' cliches

Watching Sadak 2 felt like he had regurgitated the indigestibles of Sadak, which wasn't a great film to begin with

30 Aug 2020 6:38 PM IST

Shakuntala Devi tells the story of a fiercely feminist, independent, successful woman. (Photo- Twitter)

Shakuntala Devi review: A feminist in a sexist setting

Along with Shakuntala Devi's dazzling mind, the film wants us to also see the warts and ugliness of this amazing woman

2 Aug 2020 3:08 PM IST