Kalira Atita is a 2019 Odia film by noted film maker, Nila Madhab Panda. The film is based on real events, set in Satavaya, a cluster of seven villages on India’s east coast that are swallowed up by the rising sea as a result of climate change.
READ MOREJharokh Releases Digitally
by Art House Cinema Desk | Dec 24, 2021 | Aneek Chaudhuri, Spotlight
Jharokh aka Ventilator, directed by Aneek Chaudhuri is finally releasing online for Indian Viewers on MovieSaints.
READ MOREAneek Chaudhuri films an Ode to Charles Chaplin of boundless duration
by Art House Cinema Desk | Dec 1, 2021 | Aneek Chaudhuri, Spotlight
City filmmaker Aneek Chaudhuri has completed the shooting of his upcoming feature-length venture ‘A Sonnet to the Hushed Times’ which is a tribute to the Silent Era and to be precise, Charles Chaplin.
READ MORESmita Patil – Lost Presence
by Art House Cinema Desk | Nov 8, 2021 | Archives
So how does one sum up Smita’s achievement? At the risk of being misunderstood, let me say that she remained an actress in search of a director.
READ MOREThe Studio as Superstar
by Art House Cinema Desk | Nov 6, 2021 | Archives
In spite of volatile temperaments, fragile egos, and artistic moods, the studio system was for a whole fifteen years the only way to make films in India.
READ MOREHello Arsi (2018)
by Ashok Palit | Oct 22, 2021 | Odia, Sambit Mohanty
Hello Arsi is a critically acclaimed 2018 Odia film directed by Sambit Mohanty. Set in the backdrop of the mining belt of Rourkela, the film traces the story of a young man and a woman whose paths cross accidentally.
READ MOREWhy Preserve Films
by Art House Cinema Desk | Sep 26, 2021 | Archives
Preservation of national cinema is the primary concern of any film archive. If we ourselves are not going to preserve our films, nobody else will do it for us. Archival reproduction of ‘Why Preserve Films’ by P.K. Nair.
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