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Cinema Without Borders: Beyond Hollywood — The Travel Companion

By: Namrata Joshi

The opening scene, of a post screening discussion on a bunch of short films, sets the tone for Travis Wood and Alex Mallis’ The Travel Companion. There’s the co

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Cinema Without Borders: Shot in the dark — Black Rabbit White Rabbit

By: Namrata Joshi

Iranian filmmaker Shahram Mokri's Tajiki Persian-Russian language film, Black Rabbit White Rabbit , begins with a famous tenet from the legendary

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Cinema Without Borders: A political coming of age — The Day I Had To Grow Up

By: Namrata Joshi

Stefano Da Frè and Laura Pellegrini, in their acclaimed short documentary, The Day I Had To Grow Up, ask a group of six American Gen Z activists what

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Cinema Without Borders: Young Guns — BBC Africa Eye's Blood Parliament

By: Namrata Joshi

India is not alone. Be it in Bangladesh or Nepal, Indonesia or the Philippines, Iran or Italy, Gen Z protests have been the hallmark of the 2020s.

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Cinema Without Borders: Quiet revolution — The Wolf

By: Namrata Joshi

Sometimes the most radical and progressive of ideas can crop up and get navigated in the most traditional of bastions. That too without much hullabaloo; quietly and softly.

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Cinema Without Borders: Love letter to the past — Dear You

By: Namrata Joshi

Cinema Without Borders: From Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner (1940) to Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox (2013), there have been

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Cinema Without Borders: The Unusual Family — We Are All Strangers

By: Namrata Joshi

Anthony Chen—along with Eric Khoo and Yeo Siew Hua—is one of the most influential filmmakers in contemporary Singaporean cinema. 13 years ago he

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Cinema Without Borders: All About Her Mother - mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again.

By: Namrata Joshi

Advik Beni's debut, mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again piques your interest with its

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Cinema Without Borders: Burden of Inheritance - Diane in the Loop

By: Namrata Joshi

One question that has been often asked, mostly by men, in the wake of the Me Too movement, is why did some women choose to stay quiet when they were

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Finding Feminism in Madurai: Catching Karthik Subbaraj's Dorothy @ TIFF

By: Namrata Joshi

In 2014 Karthik Subbaraj made Jigarthanda , an inventive, unusual, funny Madurai film about the making of a Madurai film on a local don, Assault Sethu.