Saturday, February 14, 2026

Notes on Not A Hero, by Rima Das, India, Singapore: 2026-Berlin Filmfestival 2026 II.-Generation

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A film only truly begins to breathe and live in the cinema. Cinema, and I mean this very special place where the collective experience of a ...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Notes on Nae Irumeun (My Name), by Chung Ji-young, Korea: 2026-Berlin Filmfestival 2026 I.-Forum

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For now, the film balances with virtuosity between opulence and home drama and it reminds me in two very different masterpieces, Alfred Hitc...
Sunday, October 5, 2025

The Teahouse Scene from Aparna Sen´s Mr. And Mrs. Iyer

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"Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Notes on Village Rockstars 2, by Rima Das, India: 2024 (Berlinale-Generation)

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  It hurts, because it is only the second film I was lucky to see from Rima Das. I remember my enthusiasm when I saw 6 years ago her Bulbul ...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Notes on 2024 (2023), by Stefan Hayn, Germany: 2025 (Berlinale-Forum)

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  The most inspiring and the most beautiful kind to talk about films are talking about its images. The origins of images, can be retraced to...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Notes on some films from the International Film festival, Rotterdam 2025

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(Bad Girl, by Varsha Bharath As a member of the NETPAC-Jury  this year in Rotterdam, I had the privilege to watch 15 films from Asia, as far...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Citizen Sen - on Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen, by Suman Ghosh, India: 2024

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  There is a moment in the film when the actress Shabana Azmi calls Aparna Sen not only one of the finest women filmmaker but rather one of ...