Cinema

METRO INOX is India's First Rooftop Solar Powered Cinema and South Mumbai's Largest Multiplex

Mumbai's iconic heritage cinema METRO INOX is now South Mumbai's largest cinema and continues the celebration of legacy and luxury with the launch of their signature indulgence, INSIGNIA screens which is 100% solar powered. The fastest growing cinema chain INOX is proud to bring India's first multiplex to join the …

A subject: a human being

An Australian documentary that premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in July has ignited a controversy with its claims on slavery in the refugee camps of western Sahara. The protagonist has denounced the film for portraying her as a slave. The 80-minute film, by Sydney-based Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw, …

The Yes Men: 'Take to the streets'

Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno (not their real names) are the frontmen for the Yes Men. They got together to set up parody websites such as www.gwbush.com and graduated to huge anti-corporate, culture-jamming stunts targeting giants such as ExxonMobil and Dow Chemical. Their latest film, The Yes Men Fix the …

My lawyers a killer

In 1994, thousands of people from the Tutsi community were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbours across Rwanda. Nine years later the killers came home from prison to live side by side again with their victims. The complexities of this homecoming are explored in director Anne Aghion

Hobbits at home

At a Tehran home, a family and its neighbours shout,

Fleetingly scary

Film>> Tobacco, Threat to Life and Development

The fag end

Angry at Warner Brothers over images of cigarettes in the comedy He

Play station Congo

Documentary>>Blood Coltan

Coal storage

Documentary>> Underground Inferno

News Snippets

>> A new Code of Best Practices for Sustainable Filmmaking has been developed in the US to help filmmakers assess and reduce the carbon footprints of productions. It was created by the non-profit Filmmakers for Conservation and the American University

Whos afraid of slumdog millionaire?

Serious quiz buffs frown upon such game shows on TV

Victims of war crime

Breaking one of his country

News Snippets

>> The US state of Hawai has introduced a web service that puts patients face-to-face with doctors. Doctors hold 10-minute appointments, which can be extended for a fee. They can also file prescriptions and view patients

In their voices

Half a century of films about indigenous peoples have been removed from forgotten corners, recorded on compact discs and launched in the Mexican market. State bookshops and offices of the government

Voices of peace

One night, in a country torn by a long and harrowing armed conflict, Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee dreamt she gathered women together to pray for peace. Her dream was realized in 2003 at St Peters Lutheran Church in the country

Films chained, unchained

On a recent visit to Tokyo, I watched Climate in Crisis, an excellent documentary co-produced in 2006 by Japan

News snippets

>> On October 11, Kerala

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