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Monday, January 26, 2026

288. Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashivili's second feature film "April" (2024) (in Georgian language) based on her own original screenplay: Can moral beliefs to help the poor and needy override the laws of the land and put one's career in jeopardy?

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Do you understand how laws work? You will have no more patients; you will not have a job. Even if you are not arrested, you will be ruined. ...
Friday, November 28, 2025

287. Indian director Praveen Morchhale's fifth feature film "White Snow" (2025) (India), based on his own original screenplay: More than a film on artistic freedom, a tale of a mother promoting her only son's passion to make films and in the process realizing the power of cinema

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  I n recent months, two feature films set in the Union Territory of Ladakh, (a part of the former Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir) were r...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

286. Vietnamese film director Pham Ngoc Lan's debut feature film "Cu Li Never Cries" (Cu Li khong bao gio khoc) (2024) (Vietnam), based on his original screenplay, co-authored with Ngiehm Qyunh Trang: Intelligently interplaying time with history, tradition and family life in unified Vietnam as two ordinary Vietnamese lovers decide to get married

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"They say live in the now as much as you can. But the past returns regardless. Un-whole. Fragmented. Existing in pieces of experience....
Sunday, May 04, 2025

285. Dominican film director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias' fourth feature film "Pepe" (2024) built on his own original screenplay: A fascinating, multi-layered cinematic work that uses a "talking" hippopotamus that is dead to present the history of African slaves in the Americas that curiously parallels the forced translocation of the hippo

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  .  W hat an unusual treat this film offers a perceptive and patient viewer! First, it is film is narrated for a substantive length of the ...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

284. Indian director Payal Kapadia’s 2nd feature film “All We Imagine as Light” (2024) in Malayalam, Hindi, and other Indian languages: An honest, sophisticated perspective of real India, intelligently presented

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  "There is always a feeling that I have to leave." -- an off-screen remark on the cloud of impermanence faced by an Indian immigr...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

283. The Vietnamese director Thien An Pham’s debut feature film “Ben trong vo ken vang“ (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell) (2023), based on his original screenplay: Searching for faith and meaning in life, following a recent personal tragedy

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        “Faith is what I am searching for ” --answers the film’s main character, Thien, to his toddler nephew’s question, on what is fa...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

The Polish film maestro Krzysztof Zanussi converses with Jugu Abraham on 14 Dec 2023 on the occasion of receiving his lifetime achievement award at IFFK, Trivandrum

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K rzysztof Zanussi (84) has won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for his film A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), the Jury prize at t...