Prathap Nair

Thirty years ago, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995, the Caméra d’Or award for the best debut feature was awarded to a film called The White Balloon, a tender portrayal of childhood in a harsh adult world. Told through the eyes of a young girl hoping to ...

Cannes is all power suits and super yachts but if you scratch the surface you will also find memorable meals.

In May 2020, when the COVID crisis hit India and lockdowns began, millions of migrant workers started walking their way home — thousands of kilometers — to their villages in different states. Among the thousands of pictures shared online from this heartbreakingly cruel journey, one stood out and was shared millions of times. It showed a young man sitting on the dirt by the roadside, holding his friend, who seemed to have suffered a heat stroke, and trying to coax him awake.

Satyajit Ray’s restored 1970 classic reminds the world why his cinema still startles, seduces, and unsettles.

What the 78th Cannes Film Festival did not expect when it announced a stricter dress code (disallowing nudity and voluminous dresses) was that someone would turn up on the red carpet dressed like a giant bird.

The director of ‘All We Imagine as Light’ discusses big city lives, urban migration and Mumbai’s violent gentrification.

In the foothills of Kerala’s Western Ghats, an avian enthusiast returns to the forests
of his first bird-watching adventure to discover that tranquility still prevails.

There are plenty of birds and animals in Aralam, one of the lesser-known sanctuaries in northern Kerala, but the main attraction is undoubtedly its abundance of butterflies!

The film, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, is a tender portrait of female friendship; it shows there are no quick fixes or happy endings to our unremarkable realities.

NGO ATN preserves and restores the biodiversity of northern Portugal to counterbalance the effects of climate change.

A LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN a young man and an older woman sets off a series of events that ignites a murderous mob in a fictional Malabar village in Chronicle of an Hour and a Half by debut author Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari. It’s a tale where the slighted moral compass of a community perpetrates vigilante justice spurred by social media.

The Indian feature films - The Fable, Kottukali and In the Belly of a Tiger - screened at Berlinale will hit the home turf sometime this year after finishing their visit to international festivals. We bring you short reviews of these films for enthusiasts curious to know what is in store with these movies.

An interview with Raam Reddy, whose The Fable premiered in the Encounters section of the 74th Berlinale.

Verghese returns to familiar themes in ‘The Covenant of Water’ – modern medicine, political upheavals, and more – to confirm himself as a writer of his own type of global novel.

Aus keinem anderen Land kamen zuletzt so viele Studierende an deutsche Hochschulen wie aus Indien. Sie könnten eine Antwort auf den Fachkräftemangel sein – vorausgesetzt, sie bleiben. Aber wollen sie das?