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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicCannes Film Festival

Topic: Cannes Film Festival

75 years of Cannes: India is ‘country of honour’ and what this means for our cinema

As India occupies centrestage at Cannes film market, a look back on major milestones in the history of Indian cinema at Cannes.

More than just an Indian actor — why Deepika Padukone deserves to be Cannes jury

Deepika Padukone embodies the phrase — 'with great power comes great responsibility'. Her inclusion in the 2022 Cannes Film Festival jury is well-deserved.

Drive My Car isn’t the Murakami adaptation you think it is. Its magic lies in another story

Drive My Car isn’t the first Murakami film adaptation, and it won’t be the last. But you should catch the movie on Mubi.

In 2015, she faced disciplinary action & FIR at FTII. Now, Payal Kapadia is a Cannes winner

Payal Kapadia's 'A Night of Knowing Nothing' won the best documentary award at Cannes. In 2017, her short film 'Afternoon Clouds' was India's only official entry to the festival.

FTII alumna, whose CatDog was only Indian film at Cannes 2020, now unsure of its future

Ashmita Guha Neogi's short film CatDog was chosen from more than 1,900 submissions for Cinéfondation Selection at Cannes that did not have a physical edition this year due to Covid.

YouTube to host world’s biggest film festivals in 10-day streaming event

The festival will bring together 20 partner festivals, including Cannes, Sundance and Tribeca, for a free 10-day streaming event from 29 May to 7 June.

This is why Parasite earning Best Picture at the Oscars is a big deal

Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean film Parasite made history by becoming the first film not in English language to win an Academy Award for the Best Picture.

Unlike West’s ‘MeToo’, subcontinent’s men don’t hang their heads in shame. Women do

Most people in the country are used to victim-shaming rather than shaming the predators. Men don’t have to hang their heads in shame, women do.

Kristen Stewart shedding her heels on the Cannes red carpet was a tall act

American actress had removed her heels at the Cannes film festival where it is mandatory for women to wear them.

On Camera

The math is clear — buying Russian oil is now a losing deal for India

India’s Russian oil purchases have effectively meant a transfer of gains from millions of workers in labour-intensive sectors to a few large refiners.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.