The screening of 'Ocean of Tears', a documentary by a Kashmir filmmaker which was scheduled to be held today at University of Kashmir was not allowed by the police here.

The movie which is supported by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India was scheduled for its first public screening at university's convocation hall today.

Talking to Kashmir Dispatch, Bilal Ahmad Jan, said: “We had scheduled to screen this documentary in the university today but soon we were called...

No sooner than Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children premiere show here got over on Monday evening in Kerala, it sparked a row for showing a map of India without Jammu and Kashmir. The film in its first screening has also sparked a row for showing former prime minister Indira Gandhi in poor light.

State Cinema Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar's estranged father and former Kerala minister R. Balakrishna Pillai shot the first salvo by saying that it should not have been screened because it shows former...

If you work with silence as your frame, every sound gets registered. If you work with scarcity as your chosen form, every little detail is capable of a denotative surplus. Aamir Bashir takes this formal technique and builds from it his film Harud that matches, shot by shot, the gravitas of its subject, carefully ‘seeking dignity,’ as he puts it, ‘in a violent place’.

Harud is set in Srinagar. It is about a Kashmiri Muslim family coming to terms with the disappearance of their son...

It has been a long wait for the director Rahat Kazmi, a local from Surankote area of Jammu, to shoot his first film ‘Identity Card’ on Kashmir. He has recently completed the shooting of the film in the valley and the movie is all set to hit the cinema in December, this year. The film is about the importance of an identity card in Kashmir.

Born and brought up in a remote village in Surankote-Poonch, Kazmi always wanted to do a film in Kashmir especially to break the pre-conceived notion...