Maudlin and melancholic, Sidonie in Japan (Sidonie au Japon), part of the International Narratives Section of the 67th San Francisco International Film Festival - SFFILM, turns out more of a touristy travelogue tour around Japan. The famed, freckled French actress Isabelle Huppert, a fetching, frilly excuse to help audiences feast on the beauteous, soul stirring Shangri-La sights […]
There is no man…however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become […]
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity.” – Keanu Reeves Driven by innate belief that “film is an art form” and “meaningful agent for social change.” Led by the credo of a festival “deeply rooted in the culture and process of film […]
O2, by newbie directors Raghav Nayak & Prashanth Raj, kindles fond hope that it is going to be a film with a difference, as the title credits, roll by. Given its tantalising title, your antennas aroused and you sit up expecting a hardboiled, nuanced sci-fi thriller to have you engaged and enthralled for the next […]
At the core of Chirate Bantu Chirate is the central concern of human animal conflict. A clarion call for peaceful symbiotic co-existence between the two. An unwritten covenant not to infringe into other’s natural space and right to survival sustenance. The premise of the plotline inspired by an ancient stone sculpture on the bank of […]
