Kolkata, Nov 11 (IBNS) Australia’s High Commissioner to India, Harinder Sidhu, on Sunday inaugurated a poster exhibition of iconic Australian films to commemorate more than 100 years of Australian cinema at the Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).
Kolkata to host wildlife and environment film fest
Kolkata, Nov 20 (IBNS): As the 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) came to an end on Friday, a Kolkata-based NGO- Desham- is all set to organize the second edition of Kolkata International Wildlife and Environment Film Festival (KIWEFF) in December.
Indian Cinema at KIFF: Is issue more important than aesthetics?
Kolkata, Nov 22 (IBNS): The Indian Select of 12 films along with three unreleased films for the Bengali Panorama vied for the top prize within this section in the form of a certificate and a citation bestowed by the Indian Film Critics Association founded in 2013 to promote healthy film criticism, promote research on Indian cinema and to create a database of information about Indian Cinema.
21st KIFF: If music be the food of love, play on…..
Kolkata, Nov 19 (IBNS): The role of music in world cinema has not been explored as much as it ideally ought to have been. This comes across lucidly through some films screened as part of the 21st KIFF both in its negative and its powerful impacts. Let us take the powerful role music can play in a film. It can be the main protagonist of a film. It can be an agency, it can have curative and rehabilitative effects on disturbed and distraught minds. How aesthetically and socially music can be handled by a talented director is expressed in the Brazilian film The Violin Teacher directed by Sergio Machado screened in the Cinema International Section.
Kolkata, Nov 20 (IBNS): Many cine-buffs who are regular viewers of the KIFF every year, expressed their scepticism when they heard that actor-director Rahul Bose was to deliver the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture that is an integral part of the KIFF every year. This is traced to his relative youth because the previous two years, we had veteran industry people like filmmaker Govind Nihalani and Sharmila Tagore to deliver the same speech because Rahul is quite young and has not had the experience his predecessors can take pride in.