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A brief exploration of the life, times and legacy of one of the most distinguished cultural figures of modern Africa – the Senegalese trade unionist, writer and filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007), whose birth centenary is being observed this year.
Garam Hawa, based on a short story by the renowned modernist Urdu writer, Ismat Chugtai, is, by common consent, one of the more creative and insightful denunciations on celluloid of the tragedy of Partition, engineered by the watchful, malevolent-midwife eyes of the departing British.
Satyajit Ray: “Ritwik was one of the few truly original talents in the cinema this country has produced. As a creator of powerful images in an epic style, he was virtually unsurpassed in Indian cinema.”
Liberation Theology is a school of thinking which proclaims that along with prayer and persuasion, methods of direct action are at times necessary for the material and spiritual liberation of the poor and powerless.
A review of short films made by three eminent filmmakers of Bangladesh – Tareque Masud, Tanvir Mokammel, and Morshedul Islam.
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