Mami 2019

Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival winners' list: Prateek Vats’ Eeb Allay Ooo!, Bombay Rose bag top honours

Eeb Allay Ooo! and Bombay Rose won the Young Critics’ Choice Award and Manish Acharya Award for New Voices in Indian Cinema at MAMI 2019 respectively.

How a viewer benefits from knowing the plot of a film, through the lens of two titles at MAMI 2019

Does it matter Oliver Laxe's Spanish film Fire Will Come gives us a mere hint of plot, whereas Konkani drama Kaajro (Bitter Tree) gives the entire plot away?

MAMI 2019 Day 4 highlights: Kabir Khan speaks at panel discussion; Bitter Chestnut, Kaifinama screened

Kabir Khan and Tahira Kashyap joined MAMI 2019 director Anupama Chopra to discuss how cinema can be an agent for change on 21 October.

Jio MAMI Mumbai film festival: Hany Abu-Assad on keeping Palestine alive through movies, the emptiness of 'art for art's sake'

Hany Abu-Assad doesn't want to be Palestine's interpreter for the world, he wants to make films that will make his people laugh and cry. In this conversation with Firstpost, he speaks about why he is attracted to love stories, his forays into Hollywood, and what makes a film good

MAMI 2019 Day 3 highlights: The Irishman, Bombay Rose, Aamis screened; Hany Abu-Assad and Nandita Das' masterclass on filmmaking

Martin Scorsese's much-anticipated The Irishman, Gitanjali Rao's Bombay Rose, Ari Aster's Midsommar were some of the films screened on the third day of the festival

MAMI 2019 Day 1 and 2 highlights: Nivin Pauly, Sobhita Dhulipala's Moothon opens festival; Axone, The Wayfarers premiere

MAMI 2019, the 21st edition of the film festival, will take place from 17 to 24 October.

Young Ahmed movie review: Belgian film about a Muslim teenager is gripping, but has nothing important to say

Young Ahmed feels oddly disconnected from its own premise

Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival and Netflix India collaborate to celebrate Women in films

On 19 October, Netflix India and the 21st Mumbai Film Festival came together to celebrate the evolving role of women in Indian storytelling as part of MAMI’s Women in Film initiative.

Gitanjali Rao on India premiere of her film Bombay Rose at MAMI 2019: Feels like bringing a man home to your parents

Filmmaker Gitanjali Rao talks about bringing Bombay Rose home at MAMI, choosing animation as her preferred language of storytelling, and why she hasn't acted after October.

Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival: Deepti Naval feted with Excellence in Cinema Award at opening ceremony

Deepti Naval was felicitated with the Excellence in Cinema Award by Deepika Padukone and Vishal Bhardwaj