The Documentaries of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy – LIFF Special Review
There is a bittersweet bit of irony at play in the fact that Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Academy-award winning short documentary…
Jugni – LIFF Special Movie Review
When Vibhavari (Sugandha Garg), an up-and-coming Bollywood music director, finds herself facing a creative block, she sets off for Punjab…
Island City – LIFF Special Movie Review
With Island City, director Ruchika Oberoi presents a tryptich of stories dealing with oppression and alienation in the modern island…
Moh Maya Money – LIFF Special Movie Review
Moh Maya Money (“In Greed We Trust”) opens in the most explosive way possible, with a fiery car crash and…
OTTAL – LIFF Special Movie Review
Award-winning Malayalam director Jayaraj turned to an Anton Chekov short story, “Vanka”, to find the inspiration for his most recent…
Cinemawala – LIFF Special Movie Review
If I were asked about the one sound in the world I love, hands down the answer would be the…
Toronto International Film Festival’s South Asian Connections
Piers Handling, CEO and Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International…
LIFF Special Movie Review: Nirbashito
Churni Ganguly’s National Award winning film Nirbashito (The Banished) is both an unflinching and compassionate look at the idea of…
LIFF Special Movie Review: Saari Raat
On a stormy evening, a married couple (Konkona Sen Sharma and Rittwik Chakraborty) on vacation takes refuge from the rain…
LIFF Special Movie Review: One Crazy Thing
Out-of-work actor Jay (Ray Panthaki) struggles to make ends meet while managing his family’s London tandoori restaurant. Jay was once…
