film

‘Joyland’ crosses the barbed wire between India and Pakistan

Indian audiences are connecting with director Saim Sadiq’s acclaimed, queer-affirming Pakistani film, briefly banned in its home country

| Jul 14, 2023

Screen Southasia: Q&A session for ‘The Next Guardian’

A conversation with the filmmaker Arun Bhattarai, director of ‘The Next Guardian’.

| Jun 15, 2023

What Southasia read in 2022

Book recommendations from a year of reading by Southasian writers, poets, translators and journalists

| Jan 06, 2023

Selective truths

Kashmiri reception to the controversial film ‘The Kashmir Files’.

| Jun 10, 2022

A Southasian filmmaker unlike any other

On Sumitra Peries, pioneering Sri Lankan film auteur.

| Apr 19, 2022

Journalists under attack, marine disaster in Sri Lanka, chasing monkeys, and more

Southasiasphere episode 08: Updates and analysis from around the region.

| Jun 09, 2021

Can’t catch that big break

Is gatekeeping and nepotism in Lollywood stunting aspiring actors?

| May 31, 2021

COVID-19 travel bubbles, vaccine procurement, Churails, and more

Southasiasphere episode 07: Updates and analysis from around the region.

| May 14, 2021

Celluloid ephemera

Preserving film in transition.

| May 12, 2021

The subtle art of resistance

Zakariya Mohammed’s ‘Halal Love Story’ tells the story of resistance in the face of an omnipotent authority.

| Feb 19, 2021

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