Gumnam din (Missing Days) is a short movie of 27 minutes directed, written and researched by Ekta Mittal. The movie was shot in Hindi language and released in the year 2019. The film was funded by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) and edited by Abhro Banerjee. The soulful music was given by Mrithunjay Sharma […]
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The Present, directed by Farah Nabulsi and written by Hind Shofani is a short film of 23minutes. The film received wide international recognition; it won the ‘International Audience Prize’ in the 2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, as well as the BAFTA Film Award 2021, the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2020, along with 30 other
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Documentary. In Arabic, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes. A mother is singing to her baby daughter, a loud explosion outside, a cry for evacuation. With just twenty seconds into the documentary, it is apparent that For Sama brings to the table something that has never before been captured in the Syrian
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Chal Mera Putt ( Let’s Go, My Son! ) is a light-hearted Indian Punjabi-language comic movie. The movie was directed by Janjot Singh, co-produced by Rhythm Boyz Entertainment, Gillz Network, and Omjee Star Studios, and released in July 2019. It is available on amazon prime video with English subtitles. The movie is based on the
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Refugees at Home is a documentary about the Migrant workers who were stuck at different workplaces in Goa after the announcement of a nationwide lockdown call given by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 24th March 2020. It is produced and directed by the national geographic explorer and filmmaker Malaika Vazand was published
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Introduction to the journey 1232 kms is a documentary movie made in the Indian Hindi language which is directed by Vinod Kapri. The documentary was released on the 24th of March 2021 on the digital platform- Disney+ Hotstar. It was produced by Guneet Monga and Smriti Mundhra and edited by Hemanti Sarkar. Rekha Bhardwaj and Sukhwinder Singh
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Azali is a 2018 Ghanaian drama movie directed by Kwabena Gyansah. The film is based on a true story of the lived experiences of a girl named Amina. The movie narrates the story of Amina, a 14-year-old girl exiled from Tamale, her rural home village in Northern Ghana to avoid an arranged marriage. Amina plunges
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‘Minari’ is a movie directed by Lee Isaac Chung featuring Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica Yi (Yeri Han) as a couple having two children David (Alan S. Kim) and Anne (Noel Cho). The movie unfolds the life of a Korean-American family who moved to rural Arkansans town to fulfill their long-awaited aspired dream. It describes
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Seventy years after Germany’s infamous Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle) and the bilateral deals with various countries to bring in foreign labor for the restructuring of the country, Germany’s ethnic diversity has not been the same since. In the 2011 tragic comedy Almanya: Wilkommen in Deutschland ( Welcome to Germany), director and writer Yasemin Şamdereli presents us
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‘Welcome to Marly-Gomont’ is a comedy movie based on a true story about the difficult process of integration of an African family in a small French community. The story takes place in the 70s. At the Lille Faculty of Medicine, students are celebrating their graduation ready to practice the profession of a doctor. Among these
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