Sourav Sarangi

Indian filmmakers and festival organizers are struggling to contact Iranian friends and collaborators due to bombings and internet disruptions. They are relying on costly VPNs and sporadic calls as people evacuate Tehran, with growing anxiety over the safety of those remaining. Filmmakers report unstable connections and difficulties reaching family and colleagues.

Stories from the Shores (Joler Chhobi, Maatir Chhobi), a two-day unique festival, will be held on both sides of the border in the Sundarbans starting this weekend.

Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' (ATB) is set to have a special screening at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival that will run from May 17 to 28.

The film will be screened on March 27

Police arrested two persons on Sunday after tension prevailed following declaration of civic poll results.Former chairman of Rajgangpur municipality Purna Chandra Rout contested election from ward no.

A 20-day film appreciation course, jointly organized by the National Film Archive of India and the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is scheduled to start from June 3.

An Assamese documentary has been selected for the prestigious Silent River Film Festival to be held in California, USA, in October.

Directors of the Indian Panorama section at Iffi have emphasized the need to set up a separate chain of theatres showcasing art house cinema.

For the second year running, a documentary that was turned down by the Mumbai International Film Festival selection committee has won the national award.

Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (SRFTI) will celebrate 60 years of the release of 'Pather Panchali' with a two-day-long programme.

A Bengali documentary on the journey of a Kolkata filmmaker to Karbala, a Hindi documentary on how a school dropout galvanised a drought-hit village into a voluntary force that changed the destiny of 58 Indian villages, a Gujarati short film on an adolescent boy coming to terms with his sexual identity while going for a swim, a personality sketch of singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan were among the 10 films that were awarded at the fourth South Asian Short Film Festival organized by the Federation of Film Societies of India (ER) at Nandan on Monday.

For the second year running, a documentary that was turned down by the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) selection committee has won the National Award. This time, it is a film on trafficking of women by Kolkata-based film-maker, writer and activist Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti.

A year after Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ won the L’Oeil d’or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’ (ATB) has been given the same award at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Actors, directors and film critics Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose, Sourav Sarangi and Shoma A Chatterjee got together for a chat as they discussed 'Ray filling the void in Indian Cinema and sensing the vacuum thereafter'. They were part of 'Rescued by Ray', a programme conducted by the Presidency Alumni Association at Derozio Hall on Friday to commemorate the birth centenary of Satyajit Ray, also an alumnus of Presidency College economics department.

Sushmit Ghosh-Rintu Thomas’s Oscar-nominated ‘Writing With Fire’ (WWF), Shaunak Sen’s Sundance award-winning ‘All that Breathes’ (ATB) and Shirey Abraham-Amit Madheshiya’s Cannes award-winning ‘The Cinema Travellers’ have one thing in common — they were first pitched and incubated at

A year after Payal Kapadia's 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' won the L'Oeil d'or (Golden Eye) award for best documentary at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' (ATB) has been given the same award at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. This is expected to have a huge impact on Kolkata's docu makers, whose works have often been deprived of attention.

KOLKATA: As Indo-US relations see-saw over the war in Afghanistan, a unique Indo-American cultural joint venture recently won high accolades in the USA. "Sadhana," a digital multimedia presentation by renowned Kathak exponent Chitresh Das, ran to packed houses in San Fransisco and Silicon Valley in the middle of October.

Come October and the city will be hosting makers of three critically acclaimed films — ‘Difret’, ‘Wadjda’ and ‘A White Lie’ — as part of an initiative by the Sundance Institute and DocedgeKolkata.

FTII's alumni in Kolkata raise their voice in protest

Bilal a profoundly moving, award-winning documentary will finally see the light of the day in Kolkata at Max Mueller Bhavan.

The cult Bengali film 'Tero Nodir Pare', restored by the National Film Archive of India, will be screened at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. The film had been lost for over 30 years, but was found and will finally be shown in Kolkata.

The city is poised to be the first in Asia to reserve a permanent screening venue for short films and documentaries.

Film-makers, authors and activists have signed an open letter protesting the sudden decision to stall the screening of Debalina Majumder's 'Gay India Matrimony' (GIM) and Shabnam Virmani's 'Had-Anhad' (HA) at the inaugural film festival organized by the Film Society Ravenshaw at Ravenshaw University. The signatories feel this move "shrinks the culture of free thinking and creativity".

With awards in key categories, Bengalis made a difference at the 60th National Film Awards announced on Monday