I think I probably knew this was going to be a depressing film because it was about low caste farmers in Rajasthan fighting against corrupt officials.
Continue readingI, Poppy (2025)
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Santosh (2024)
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Santosh (Shahana Goswami) is a young Indian widow cast adrift by the death of her policeman husband. Her in-laws hate her so her best option, as a woman, is to take a compassionate position as a police woman, symbolically replacing her husband.
Continue readingAll We Imagine as Light (2024)
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One of the hardest things about MIFF is staying confident with the films that you have chosen.
Continue readingKayo Kayo Colour (2023)
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As the first gorgeous black-and-white scenes unfolded, I thought I had stumbled into a documentary.
Continue readingIt Lives Inside (2023)
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A guaranteed strategy to stay awake through your third film of the day, is to make sure it’s a horror.
Continue readingThe Goddess (Devi) (1960)
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Satyajit Ray is a master of pared-back social drama that exposes the class and social structure of India.
Continue readingHotel Mumbai (2018)
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Based on the four days of terrorist attacks on Mumbai ten years ago, this Australian / Indian dramatisation keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout. Continue reading
Madly (2016)
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Madly is six short films, each by a different director and based in a different country. They all explore some aspect of love and are stylistically and emotionally diverse. It’s hard to choose a single rating for six such different films and I struggle with the episodic nature of anthologies of short films; no sooner have you engaged with the story than you have to leave. They are all interesting, the first three – from India, Australia and the US (though directed by a Chilean Sebastián Silva) – are my favourites. Continue reading
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