Mritunjay Sharma expands on the problematic nature of foreign nomination at the Oscars

Mritunjay Sharma reviews Public Intimacy and Railment, both shown at the Manchester Film Festival 2017

Mritunjay Sharma profiles Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary film career

Mritunjay Sharma explores the tradition of biopic films in Bollywood

Maxim Gorky’s play The Lower Depths has spread its influence greatly within the world of film

I, Olga Hepnarova is an emotionally charged insight into the mind of a mass murderer

Mritunjay Sharma reinterprets Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s classic

Jean-Pierre Melville’s adaptation of the original Jean Bruller novella is minimalist and engaging, in Le Silence De La Mer

Looking back over some of Abbas Kiarostami’s work as an Iranian film director

Where is the Friend’s House?, the film that brought Abbas Kiarostami to attention, beautifully explores the Koker region of Iran

All Rise takes globalisation to newer heights in a competition of law and order

The first film in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali, is a beautiful and masterful piece of world cinema that works brilliantly on many levels