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Best Foreign Film: the politics behind it
Mritunjay Sharma expands on the problematic nature of foreign nomination at the Oscars
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MANIFF 2017: Public Intimacy and Railment
Mritunjay Sharma reviews Public Intimacy and Railment, both shown at the Manchester Film Festival 2017
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Feature: short documentaries of Sergei Loznitsa
Mritunjay Sharma profiles Sergei Loznitsa's documentary film career
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Feature: Biopics in Bollywood
Mritunjay Sharma explores the tradition of biopic films in Bollywood
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The Lowers Depths remains relevant in film
Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths has spread its influence greatly within the world of film
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Review: I, Olga Hepnarova
I, Olga Hepnarova is an emotionally charged insight into the mind of a mass murderer
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Revisiting: Beware of a Holy Whore
Mritunjay Sharma reinterprets Rainer Werner Fassbinder's classic
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Classic Review: Le Silence De La Mer
Jean-Pierre Melville's adaptation of the original Jean Bruller novella is minimalist and engaging, in Le Silence De La Mer
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Feature: Celebrating the life of Abbas Kiarostami
Looking back over some of Abbas Kiarostami's work as an Iranian film director
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Classic Review: Where is the Friend's Home?
Where is the Friend's House?, the film that brought Abbas Kiarostami to attention, beautifully explores the Koker region of Iran
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Review: All Rise
All Rise takes globalisation to newer heights in a competition of law and order
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Classic Review: Pather Panchali
The first film in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, is a beautiful and masterful piece of world cinema that works brilliantly on many levels