Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta  Writer: Buddhadev Dasgupta Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Ananya Chatterjee, Pankaj Tripathy 132 mins  Language:  Hindi  Origin: India   Drama A fruitful collaboration between the prominent Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta and the...

Dir.: Alphan Eseli; Cast: Ugur Polat, Nergis Ozturk, Serdar Orcin; Turkey 2013, 112 min.  Turkish with English Subtitles   Drama Alphan Eseli’s debut film THE LONG WAY HOME, a gruelling masterpiece centring on...

Dir. Dan Krauss: USA 2012, 79 min. To make a proper anti-war film, one has to avoid glorifying any action and Dan Krauss THE KILL TEAM shows very little war action,...

János Szász's magnificently-crafted adaptation of Agota Kristof''s French-language: 'The Notebook' (hence the title) is a lesson in history and a treasure of Hungarian contemporary cinema which has lurked much in the shadows of late. Christian...

Director: Valeria Golino  Writers: Valeria Golino, Angela Del Fabbro Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo 96min   Italy/France   Drama     Italian with subtitles [youtube id="y6D636FLP34" width="600" height="350"] Italian actress Valeria...

Dir.: Alan Gilsenan, Cast: Maria Doyle Kennedy, Leryn Franco; Ireland 2013, 80 min. Some films really bring something new into one’s life, and ELIZA LYNCH: QUEEN OF PARAGUAY is such a film....

CAMILLE CLAUDEL, 1915  * * * * Juliette Binoche stars as Camille in this austere and pared-down portrait, none the less beautiful for its ascetic treatment, of a woman artist who...

Director: Wiktor Eriksoon. Prod Erik Magnusson. Sweden-Norway 2013. 78min. Documentary Can a film about sexploitation be funny, upbeat and endearing?:  This one is. Despite a rather off-putting title, I wandered in rather by...

Dir.: Nagraj Manjule Cast: Somnath Avghade, Syraj Pawar, Kishon Kadan India 2012, 105 min. Manjule’s contemporary rural drama about a Dalit (untouchable) teenager Jabya is a simple but never simplistic affair. It shows...