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Prantik Basu on Bela, his meditative documentary that juxtaposes the Chhau art form with life in a Bengal village
Workers Leaving the Factory: How Louis Lumière’s 1895 film bound labour and cinema together for eternity
Oscars 2021: Romanian documentary Collective studies the multifarious factors at play in shaping a democracy
How 2021 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, The Mole Agent, plays on ambiguity of fiction-documentary divide
The Dissident review: Bryan Fogel’s Jamal Khashoggi documentary is captivating, but often plays out like a spy thriller
Apples movie review: Greece's official Oscars entry fashions itself as the study of a cipher
Quo Vadis, Aida? movie review: Oscar-nominated Bosnian film deftly examines the Srebrenica massacre
At IFFR 2021, two Japanese films provide complementary perspectives into the intersection of class and gender
Book excerpt: In Modernism by Other Means, an examination of Amit Dutta's filmmaking style
How Robert Wise's 1949 boxing film The Set-Up underscores the impossibility of the Great American Dream
45 years later, how Indira Gandhi's 1975 Emergency appears through the lens of the Films Division of India
In Reaching for the Sun, William Wellman explores modern man’s enslavement by his own inventions
In Heroes for Sale, William A Wellman presents discontentment with the old and hope for the new, steeped in govt propaganda
How The Scarlet Empress deftly explores the duality of evil and innocence while mapping the rise of Catherine the Great
Visions du Réel 2020: Works at the festival's online edition exhibited a yearning for the social, symbolic of present crisis
How Hollywood classic Hellzapoppin' defied categorisation, rejoiced in playing with possibilities of the medium
Cecil B DeMille’s This Day and Age portrayed the tensions of its era as well as the dynamics of Hollywood film production
