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Bangladeshi Film Master Triumphs at Rotterdam Film Festival

Bangladeshi cinema marked a major international achievement as Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s Master won the Big Screen Competition Award at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), one of Europe’s most influential film festivals. The win stood out among a strong and diverse lineup of global titles showcased at the festival. Master traces the moral and political transformation of a schoolteacher in Bangladesh who is drawn into local power structures, gradually moving from idealism to authoritarian impulses. Praising the film, the Big Screen Competition jury described it as “a universal story about

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‘One Battle After Another’ Dominates Golden Globes 2026

The 83rd Golden Globe Awards spread the spotlight across bold cinema and ambitious television, with One Battle After Another and Adolescence emerging as the night’s biggest winners. Paul Thomas Anderson’s sharp political satire collected four awards, including best musical or comedy film, along with directing and screenplay honors. In the drama category, Hamnet, a portrait of William Shakespeare’s private life, secured top film honors and earned Jessie Buckley a best actress Globe. On the television side, Adolescence led all series with four trophies. The Netflix-backed limited series, told in a single

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Béla Tarr, Master of Austere Cinema, Dies at 70

Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr has died at the age of 70. Born on 21 July 1955, Tarr began his career with Family Nest (1979), initially working in what he described as “social cinema,” focusing on the everyday lives of ordinary people and often employing a cinéma vérité approach. Over time, his films underwent a major stylistic and thematic shift, marked by a stark, pessimistic view of humanity. His characters are frequently disillusioned, trapped in fraught relationships that critics have often described as bleakly ironic. His early feature Almanac of Fall (1984)

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Brigitte Bardot, Icon of French Cinema and Activist, Dies at 91

Brigitte Bardot, the French film star whose screen presence reshaped popular culture in the postwar era, has died at the age of 91. A global icon of beauty and sensuality in the 1950s and 60s, Bardot later withdrew from cinema to devote herself to animal rights activism, while also becoming a deeply polarising political figure. Her death was announced by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation at her home, La Madrague, in Saint-Tropez. The cause of death was not disclosed. French president Emmanuel Macron paid tribute, calling her “a legend of the century”

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Inside Mejbaur Rahman Sumon’s Roid
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After the remarkable success of his debut feature, Hawa (2022), Mejbaur Rahman Sumon has directed Roid, scheduled for release in
Why We Still Need Ritwik Ghatak 50 Years Later
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Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. -Ritwik Ghatak

BÉLA TARR : The Last Tango of Cinema
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BÉLA TARR : The Last Tango of Cinema

Following the death of Béla Tarr on January 6, cinema has lost one of its most uncompromising moral forces. His films remain as
Did 2025 Mark a Turning Point for Motherhood and Fatherhood on Screen?
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Did 2025 Mark a Turning Point for Motherhood and Fatherhood on Screen?

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Inside Mejbaur Rahman Sumon’s Roid
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Inside Mejbaur Rahman Sumon’s Roid

After the remarkable success of his debut feature, Hawa (2022), Mejbaur Rahman Sumon has directed Roid, scheduled for release in 2026. Before its domestic release, the film will be showcased at several international film festivals. On behalf of Cut to Cinema, Bidhan Rebeiro, editor, spoke with Mejbaur Rahman Sumon about his new project.This interview was published in Cut To Cinema January 2026 issue (Vol 1 No 10). ....................... This film, Roid, is completely different from your first feature film, Hawa. Where did you get the story for this film? Honestly, the journey of ' ...

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Bangladeshi Film Master Triumphs at Rotterdam Film Festival

Bangladeshi Film Master Triumphs at Rotterdam Film Festival

Bangladeshi cinema marked a major international achievement as Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s Master won the Big Screen Competition Award at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), one of Europe’s most influential film festivals. The win stood out among a strong and diverse lineup of global titles showcased at the festival. Master traces the moral and political transformation of a schoolteacher in Bangladesh who is drawn into local power structures, gradually moving from idealism to authoritarian impulses. Praising the film, the Big Screen Competition jury described it as “a universal story about ' ...

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Why We Still Need Ritwik Ghatak 50 Years Later

Why We Still Need Ritwik Ghatak 50 Years Later

Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. -Ritwik Ghatak On February 6, 1976, Ritwik Kumar Ghatak passed away in a state hospital in Kolkata. He was only 51 years old, his body exhausted by tuberculosis and chronic alcoholism. For decades, he was remembered as the ‘tragic’ outlier of Indian cinema, a man whose debut feature, Nagarik (1952), remained unreleased for twenty-five years until after his death. Yet, fifty years later, the global cinematic landscape has shifted. We no longer ' ...

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Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian detained in Iran

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian detained in Iran

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Iranian screenwriter who co-wrote Jafar Panahi’s film It Was Just An Accident, has been arrested in Iran. The film won last year’s Palme d’Or and is nominated for Best Screenplay and Best International Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards. Mahmoudian was taken into custody for signing an open letter that criticized Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian government over their response to the nationwide protests that have rocked the country and led to widespread loss of life. According to Neon, the US distributor of the film, ' ...

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Sundance Festival Becomes Platform for Protests Against ICE After Minnesota Killing

Sundance Festival Becomes Platform for Protests Against ICE After Minnesota Killing

The Sundance Film Festival this year has unfolded against a backdrop of political anger and public grief, as filmmakers, audiences, and celebrities used the event to protest the actions of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the fatal shooting of a Minnesota man. The protests come after the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, who was shot dead by ICE agents on Saturday during a confrontation in Minnesota. Pretti’s death occurred just two weeks after another fatal ICE shooting in the state, that of 37-year-old Renee Good, intensifying ' ...

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