Overview of articles
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Naangal
Three boys learn to navigate life under a disciplinarian father in an epic coming-of-age drama.Published on: -
Seven Seas Seven Hills
An immortal and an everyman meet in this irresistible mix of melodrama, comedy and spectacle.Published on: -
Dancing Bells
A girl really wants to learn to dance. Classical Indian dance. Isn’t easy if you grow up without a father in Brickfields, the rundown Indian…Published on: -
Nine Emotions
Fascinating story about the famine and of the `third sex’ in India. A fiction film with documentary elements in which a young girl finds out…Published on: -
Block B
A sketch of a community within the community in an outer suburb of Kuala Lumpur. In an apartment block filled with Indian workers, we witness…Published on: -
My Magic
During the final applause in Cannes, the protagonist and magician Bosco Francis pulled out his wallet and a big flame came out of it. It’s…Published on: -
Hey! Ram
India, 1940s. After the murder of his fiancée by Moslem fighters, the bitter Saket Ram joins the Hindu extremists. He only has one aim: to…Published on: -
The Call Home
The world of immigrant workers in Singapore through the eyes of Kasi, an impressionable Indian building labourer.Published on: -
House of My Fathers
Magic-realist fairy tale about the Sri Lankan civil war captures the fear and trauma with its poetic, acerbic tone.Published on: -
Nasir
Candid portrait of a gentle man reduced to second-class citizenship as a Muslim in an India characterised by rising Hindu nationalism.Published on: