Toronto, ON (July 24, 2020) – BMO IFFSA Toronto, the largest South Asian film festival in North America, is back in an innovative new way! The cutting-edge BMO IFFSA Virtual 2020 portal is now live! Despite the recent uncertainties, the IFFSA team has been working hard over the past few months to find an effective […]
Toronto, ON (Oct 19, 2019) – BMO IFFSA Toronto, the largest South Asian film festival in North America, today announced the addition of global cinema icons Mr. Manoj Bajpayee from India and Ms Shahrbanoo Sadat from Afghanistan to its advisory board. The board which is composed of highly respected global cinematic arts leaders provides guidance […]
Toronto, April 18 – BMO IFFSA Toronto 2019 opens with an amazing performance by the extraordinary actress, Tillotama Shome in the film ‘SIR’. The film, set in contemporary Mumbai, carries a delicate, but insightful look into class conflict — and not in the usual clichés of power-struggle and exploitation. Full lineup of the films, events, concerts […]
IFFSA 2019 Even as you read these words, the words … ahead … are uncertain. Reading now becomes slower, careful, more alert. Abruptly, there is uncertainty, anticipation. There is some surprise … and rising suspense. This reading is volatile with possibilities. Every word you read could now instantaneously take you anywhere. Without warning, our casual […]
The Indian film industry has seen consistent growth over the years. With the introduction of new mediums of consumption of films, the potential for future growth is healthier than it has ever been. However, to capitalise and build on this opportunity the industry needs an ecosystem, at a state and central level, that lets it […]
It was his cadence that gave so many of us a first inkling of the strength called for to live through the ceaseless desolations that would mark our life. His head raised to revel in a surge of the wind, the swirl of a gesture in reciprocation to a contour in nature or as an emboldening […]
By Uday Bhatia As Bheeku Mhatre in ‘Satya’, he lit a fire in Hindi cinema. When he catches attention, he grabs it hard, as he has done again with the most nuanced role of his career in ‘Aligarh’ A man sits alone in a dark room listening to a cassette player. He’s drinking whisky, humming […]
The BMO IFFSA Toronto brought a wave of excitement with the star studded international trailer launch of eagerly awaited Punjabi film, Sarvaan. International Superstar Priyanka Chopra along with Punjabi Superstar Amrinder Gill unveiled the trailer during a packed media conference held at Hilton in Mississauga. Priyanka Chopra and Amrinder Gill started off their day by […]
Toronto, April 12 – The Song of Scorpions, which premiered at the Piazza Grande, Locarno Film Festival, and has travelled to some of the most prestigious film festivals in Europe, the Middle-East, Asia & Latin America will have its North American premiere at IFFSA 2018 as the opening film. Director, writer Anup Singh has again […]
Irrfan Khan was supposed to be here with us at IFFSA this year. But this extraordinary actor, my beloved and glorious friend and muse, is in a dogged and feisty war with his health at the moment. I know him well and I know that life for him is interlaced with the light and dark, […]