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Cinema - Beyond the Pale
Volume 31 Issue 3

Dispatches from TIFF 2018 43rd Edition
This was my third time at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It was also Piers Handling’s final […]

Beyond the Pale
This issue of Serai, “Beyond the Pale” (Vol.31, Issue 3), is one that resonates with me deeply. Hence, I […]

Cinema, Identity and Openings Rather than Fences
Commentary on La Negrada, Sueño en Otro Idioma and El Violín [Note: References to film portrayals of Indigenous dramas […]

Screening Truth to Power – Cinema Politica: Audio Interview with Svetla Turnin and Ezra Winton
As Cinema Politica turns 15 in Montréal, Dipti Gupta and Raphael Cohen-Demers interview co-founders Svetla Turnin and Ezra Winton to walk us through […]

The Evocation of a Sea Island Heritage
1. Tradition NANA PEAZANT (narrating) “In this quiet place, simple folk knelt down and caught a glimpse of the […]

Rumble: the Indians who Rocked the World
Interview with Catherine Bainbridge and Ernest Webb Introduction: The evening of the interview, I showed up at Catherine […]

Women Who Say ‘I’: Courtesans, Actresses, and a #metoo Movement That Spans Millennia
In 1991, Indian feminist filmmaker Reena Mohan produced a little-known documentary called Kamlabai. The film chronicled the remarkable […]

What should have been a Spike Lee spliff…Review of BlacKkKlansman
In response to a three-page critique[1] of the film by Boots Riley, the first point I want to […]

From Hum Aapke Hain Kaun to Padmaavat – India’s cultural identity
Padmaavat (2018), Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s latest magnum opus, became mostly notorious for what was claimed as its attack […]

Escaping Agra – A short film by Pallavi Somusetty
[Note: The film was featured in the diaspora panel at the South Asian Film Festival of Montreal (October […]

Minnie and Moskowitz and Jesse and Durga
Magnificent. Maddening. John Cassavetes’ Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) is a small story about big love. Seymour Moskowitz, played by […]

Mon environnement urbain
Démarche artistique Ma pratique photographique est inspirée de l’environnement qui m’entoure. Un premier projet abordait le thème […]