Koumarane Valavane plays the eponymous protagonist of writer-director Arun Karthick's sophomore feature 'Nasir,' a contender for the Rotterdam Film Festival's Tiger award. By Neil Young Still only 27, ...
A slice-of-life look at a Muslim fabric shop salesman in southern India, told with a deeply affecting humanism that beautifully draws out the man’s dignity. The understated, deeply humane approach ...
At the 2021 New York Indian Film Festival, presented by the Indian American-founded Indo-American Arts Council, the Kannada film, “Pinki Elli” (“Where is Pinki”), won the Best Screenplay award for ...
Throughout Nasir’s life, there have been numerous challenges to making his identity legible to his Black, Christian and Mexican family. Instead of focusing, like other films might, on the ...
In a way, the trigger for Reema Kagti and Nasir Shaikh’s journeys was the same. The filmmaker-writer grew up in the tiny village of Borhapjan in Assam, and Shaikh in Malegaon, Maharashtra. But both ...
Koumarane Valavane plays the eponymous protagonist of writer-director Arun Karthick's sophomore feature 'Nasir,' a contender for the Rotterdam Film Festival's Tiger award. By Neil Young Still only 27, ...
The understated, deeply humane approach director Arun Karthick takes in addressing the heinous anti-Muslim rhetoric infecting Indian politics today proves far more powerful than any larger-scale drama ...
A slice-of-life look at a Muslim fabric shop salesman in southern India, told with a deeply affecting humanism that beautifully draws out the man’s dignity. The understated, deeply humane approach ...