Ram on Tamil cinema
27 January 2018
“Men here feel humiliated.”
Ram on Tamil cinema
27 January 2018
Other blog posts on IFFR 2018
Interviews
In 4:3, the attention stays much more focused on the characters.
Kantemir Balagov on Tesnota
Interviews
If the film was only a positive eulogy, it would be boring.
Fellipe Barbosa on Gabriel and the Mountain
Interviews
It felt to me as if she was using the word as some sort of magic to feel better
In the rural city of Mito, the capital of Japan’s Ibaraki Prefecture, a young woman aimlessly wanders around a dilapidated and quiet housing estate. Her name is Ako, and there is something certainly off about her. Perpetually in a world of her own, she has trouble communicating with humans, instead choosing to speak to objects, plants and even befriending a mannequin in the woods. Is Ako crazy, or simply misunderstood by those around her?
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Cinema, From the Inside Out
10 February 2018
One of my most favorite childhood memories with cinema is sitting on one of the large floor mats placed on an open field in a tiny village called Bibirhat in rural Bangladesh, on a misty January evening of 1994. A local cultural group was holding a film screening by renting a projector and a white screen from the nearest city – an annual village tradition. Hundreds of villagers flocked to the field to watch a movie that I don’t remember the title or story of, but the experience is lucid in memory.