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Oscars 2022: Writing With Fire co-director Sushmit Ghosh's deep dive into making of the Khabar Lahariya documentary
Namrata Joshi • 3 years ago"It was their story, but then it also became ours," says Sushmit Ghosh, who directed along with Rintu Thomas Writing With Fire, Indian documentary nominated at Oscars 2022.
Oscars 2022: What makes Flee, Danish International Feature, a watershed in LGBTQ+ representation
Chintan Girish Modi • 3 years agoFlee does not make a song and dance about self-disclosure and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people. Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen leans into it quietly, and with dignity.
Oscars 2022: Writing With Fire's nomination is just the first step in a long road to recognition of the Indian documentary
Manik Sharma • 3 years agoWhile Writing with Fire may go where no film in India ever has, it also inadvertently illuminates the sobering reality about the documentary genre in India. Because neither is the format considered an asset, nor is it even considered cinema.
Shaunak Sen on why his Sundance award-winning film All That Breathes is far more than an environmental documentary
Neerjad • 3 years ago“I’m wary of bleeding-heart sentimentalism that tinges the discourse around environmentalism," says filmmaker Shaunak Sen, who feels All That Breathes, his documentary on kites in Delhi and their rescuers, is "an interspecies love story."
Cow review: Andrea Arnold's observational documentary is a curiously liberating study of bovine heart
Rahuldesai • 3 years agoAndrea Arnold follows Luma, a cow, for four years at an English dairy farm in this observational documentary – chronicling her daily life in stark detail. The result is a surprisingly moving allegory of feminine identity.
Urf, new documentary on celebrity lookalikes in India, traces the individual artists' to find their primary identities
Srikanth Srinivasan • 3 years agoGeetika Narang Abbasi’s documentary Urf, currently playing at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, underlines that the work of a lookalike comes with an expiry date, that at some point, the need to find one’s own identity takes precedence.
2021: The year that music documentaries changed the way we look at our favourite artists
Lgo • 3 years agoMusic documentaries become very engaging storytellers as they draw us deep into a world that we find so familiar because we are music fans, but so unfamiliar because there is only so much that we honestly know.
Fighting tigers, a limbless father holding his son, hunting pumas: Incredible winners of Siena International Photo Awards
Fp Staff • 3 years agoThe annual contest takes us on an emotional ride with its spectacular images, which were selected from hundreds and thousands of entries. Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan was declared the overall winner with his ‘emotionally strong’ image of a father who had lost a leg holding his son, who was born without lower or upper limbs.
Britney Vs Spears on Netflix offers no new insight, instead capitalises on singer's court case
Karishmaupadhyay • 4 years agoBritney Vs Spears pales in comparison to its predecessors and builds a discombobulated snapshot of Spears’s situations.
'More madness and mayhem': Joe Exotic's Tiger King 2 to premiere on Netflix this year
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe brief teaser of Tiger King 2 features Joe Exotic apparently phoning in from prison, where he is serving his 22-year sentence.