Anam Abbas’s documentary chronicles the multi-city women’s marches across Pakistan on March 8, 2020, examining how mobilising and organising are complex tasks that require women to constantly navigate threats from different directions.
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Sritama Bhattacharyya is a writer, critic, and educator whose essays examine gender, culture, and power.
The films and series that have foregrounded the act of grooming in the last couple of decades linger on the same uneasy question: what does it mean to be “chosen” by someone who already holds power over you?
Joshua Seftel's Oscar-winning documentary short film follows journalist Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, as they revisit the rooms of victims of school shootings and meet their parents, for whom time has effectively stopped since the day their lives got upended.
At the heart of The Tablet lies a story about survival shaped by silence—about a mother who must withhold the truth to protect her child, and a child who continues to dream despite the weight he unknowingly carries.
Marking his birth anniversary, here is remembering the poet who carried his care for the nation he had placed his hopes in into his words, writing verses for workers, women, lovers—anyone in need of steadiness against the forces that hemmed them in.
For Sen, cinema could never be alienated from the society it claimed to mirror.
Joachim Trier's film never loses sight of itself. It is less interested in resolution than in the gradual realisation that learning to live with one another is an uneven, complex, ever-evolving kind of kindness.
Salil Chowdhury managed to smuggle complex ideas of class privilege and political consciousness into children’s music, shaping the childhood of generations—something unprecedented in Indian music.
The Partition was an open wound that marked Ritwik Ghatak's art, his worldview, and his sense of belonging. On his birth centenary, here's looking back at his Partition trilogy, which portrayed the refugee experience on celluloid with remarkable nuance.
Sonali Rajkumar Devnani's documentary, which had its World Premiere at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival 2025, unravels the exploitative labour underpinning faith.
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