Editorial
Stories
Essays and dispatches tracing Indian regional cinema through festivals, awards, movements, restoration, and memory.
Festival Circuit
India's journey through the world's major film festivals
Movements & Retrospectives
Deep dives into the movements that shaped Indian cinema
Five Films
Curated micro-lists with context
First of Its Kind
The firsts that shaped Indian regional cinema history
First of Its Kind
He Built a Studio Out of Bamboo and Banana Stumps to Make This Film
Joymoti gave Assamese cinema its first film. It also gave its lead actress a life sentence she never signed up for.
4 Jul 2026 / 6 min read
First of Its Kind
The First Malayalam Talkie Doesn't Exist Anymore
Balan announced Malayalam cinema's arrival in sound. Today, almost nothing of it survives except the songs and a handful of photographs.
4 Jul 2026 / 5 min read
Five Films
Quick ReadFirst Cut: Five Debuts That Announced a New Generation on the World Stage
4 Jul 2026 / 3 min read
Five Films
Quick ReadThe Marathi Exception: Five Debut Films, One Regional Cinema's Outsized Reputation
4 Jul 2026 / 3 min read
First of Its Kind
The Talkie That Outlived the First Talkie
Ayodhyecha Raja wasn't India's first sound film. A fire in 2003 made sure it became the oldest one we can still watch.
4 Jul 2026 / 5 min read
Movements & Retrospectives
The Movement: How Hindi Cinema Built, Lost, and Rebuilt Its Art House
Three funding regimes, one enduring argument about what Indian cinema could be
2 Jul 2026 / 7 min read
Festival Circuit
India at Berlin
The Competition gave India two Bears. The Forum gave it a home.
1 Jul 2026 / 8 min read
Festival Circuit
Busan Never Had to Discover India
How Asia's biggest festival treated Indian cinema as a peer, not a project
1 Jul 2026 / 7 min read
Festival Circuit
India at Cannes: A Story in Five Acts, 1946-2024
How Indian cinema found, lost, and found again its place on the Croisette
1 Jul 2026 / 6 min read
Festival Circuit
The Festival That Never Waited
How Nantes found Ghatak, Guru Dutt, and Raj Kapoor before the rest of Europe thought to look
1 Jul 2026 / 8 min read
Festival Circuit
Toronto Doesn't Discover Films. It Launches Them.
How TIFF became the festival where Indian stories learned to reach the widest room in the world
1 Jul 2026 / 7 min read
Festival Circuit
India at Venice: The Quiet Current
Two Golden Lions, forty-four years apart, and the steady current between them
1 Jul 2026 / 7 min read
Festival Circuit
Sundance Wasn't Looking For India
How American independent cinema's biggest stage became one of Indian cinema's most reliable ones anyway
30 Jun 2026 / 8 min read
Festival Circuit
The Locarno Breakthrough
How a farmer's dispossession in Assam found its way to a Swiss lakeside, and what it opened for the Northeast
30 Jun 2026 / 7 min read