First Take | If Bhutan can go to Oscars with Lunana, why can't India with a back-to-roots film like Kadaisi Vivasayi?
Subhash • 3 years agoOne reason why Indian films always get snubbed at the Oscars is their verbosity. Indian filmmakers are petrified of silences. They make the characters speak constantly to ensure the audience does not lose interest.
Oscars 2021: Denmark's Another Round bags award for Best International Feature
• 4 years ago“This is beyond anything I could ever imagine,” Another Round director Thomas Vinterburg said
Night of the Kings, Philippe Lacôte's Ivorian Oscars entry, is a peek into the world's only prison run by an inmate
Bedatri D Choudhury • 4 years agoNight of the Kings is a film made of fleeting moments of beauty packed within a world defined by violence and surrounded by death.
Quo Vadis, Aida? movie review: Oscar-nominated Bosnian film deftly examines the Srebrenica massacre
Srikanth Srinivasan • 4 years agoQuo Vadis, Aida? manages to open up the film from this narrow narrative perspective to larger political questions in a fairly organic manner.