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The much-acclaimed Kannada film Shivamma is finally set to make its digital debut. After winning hearts at international film festivals, the film will be available for streaming on Sun Nxt starting April 4, 2025. Shivamma, directed by Jaishankar Aryar, has received acclaim for its realistic narration and fine performances.

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Produced by Rishab Shetty Films, the film has already caused a splash at the Busan International Film Festival, where it won the New Currents Award. Now, fans who were unable to catch its release in theaters can watch this emotional tale from the comfort of their homes.

What Is Shivamma About?

Shivamma follows the journey of a 46-year-old mid-day meal cook, played by Sharanamma Chetti. Living in a rural village, she dreams of a better financial future for her family.

The festival has dropped its international competition in favour of a South Asia focus.

The Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival has unveiled a South Asia-focused revamp for its first in-person event since 2019, set to run October 27 to November 5.

The festival has dropped its international and India Gold competitions and will launch its first South Asia competitive section as part of a new approach to become a hub for cinema and talent from the region and diaspora.

The 14 films in the South Asia Competition are from first and second-time filmmakers from India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal as well as diaspora filmmakers from the UK and Germany,...

After a three-year hiatus, the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival is returning with a larger lineup and an expanded focus on South Asian cinema.

The festival will feature 250 films including 40 world premieres, 45 Asia premieres and 70 South Asia Premieres. The opening and closing films have not been finalized yet.

The festival’s new vision is to become a hub for South Asian and South Asian diaspora cinema and talent and, in keeping with this, the main competition is for 14 films from the region. These include the world premieres of Leesa Gazi’s “A House Named Shahana” (Bangladesh-u.K.), Dibakar Das Roy’s “Dilli Dark” (India), Sumanth Bhat’s “Mithya” (India) and Fazil Razak’s “The Sentence” (India). The new focus will also include 46 non-competition films from South Asia.

The Icons South Asia strand features Anand Patwardhan’s Toronto title “The World is Family”; “Indi(r)a’s Emergency” by Vikramaditya Motwane...

Winner of the New Currents Award at this year’s Busan, “Shivamma” is still continuing its festival run in 2023, while expected to premiere in India in 2024.

Shivamma is screening at Black Movie

Shivamma is a poor, middle-aged woman who is trying to support her family, including a bed-ridden husband, a not so bright daughter who is in an age to get married and a brattish son, by selling the energy drink Nuracle to whomever she can. Obviously a pyramid scheme, the selling of a liquid with dubious results remains the only source of income and hope for her, with the company’s slogan, ‘I will do it!’ having become her own motto. The difficulties she has to face, however, mostly having to do with money, pile up, and her job becomes more and more difficult. She keeps on though.

Jaishankar Aryar directs a film that looks like a documentary,...

Hainan Island International Film Festival (Hiiff) in China’s Sanya has returned as an in-person event, following a relatively short Covid-related postponement, with separate competition sections for features, documentaries and shorts.

The festival opened on December 18 with a screening of Chinese filmmaker Da Peng’s Post Truth and is scheduled to wrap on December 25. It was originally scheduled to run December 3-10, but was postponed due to the on-going Covid situation.

Veteran festival director Marco Mueller recently joined Hiiff as artistic director. He previously headed programming for China’s Pingyao International Film Festival.

Hiiff’s 11-title competition section will screen recent festival favourites including Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts. Chinese titles in competition include Chakme Rinpoche’s Georgia and Qiao Siyu’s The Cord Of Life. The documentary competition will screen eight titles (see line-up below).

In addition to the competition sections,...

Marco Mueller overseeing fourth edition of festival.

China’s Hainan Island International Film Festival (Hiiff) is to take place from December 18-25, after being postponed at short notice, and has revealed the titles in its feature and documentary competitions.

The fourth edition of the festival, held in the city of Sanya, was set to run from December 3-10 but was abruptly put on hold following a rise in Covid cases. Now, following the relaxation of pandemic measure in China over the past week, the festival is back on and has unveiled its line-up of titles.

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The Hiiff Competition,...

Winners in the Jiseok competition included ‘Scent Of Wind’ and ‘Alteration’.

Korean drama A Wild Roomer and Indian feature Shivamma have picked up the top awards at the 27th Busan International Film Festival, which today wraps its first fully-fledged edition in three years.

The two titles were named joint winners of Biff’s New Currents competition, open to first or second features from up-and-coming Asian filmmakers.

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A Wild Roomer marks the debut feature of South Korean director Lee Jeong-hong and is an offbeat drama that revolves around a carpenter who becomes close with...

Korean filmmaker Lee Jeong-hong’s A Wild Roomer and Shivamma, from India’s Jaishankar Aryar, were the winners of the New Currents Awards at the close of an encouragingly busy Busan International Film Festival.

A Wild Roomer, about a 30-something drifter, picked up multiple honors at the festival, also taking the Netpac Award, Critic b Award and Kbs Independent Film Award. Set in an Indian village, Shivamma is about an illiterate woman who falls for a pyramid selling scheme.

The Kim Jiseok Awards went to Scent Of Wind, from Iranian filmmaker Hadi Mohaghegh, which also played as Biff’s opening film, and Alteration from Uzbekistan’s Yalkin Tuychiev.

Other winners included Aamir Bashir’s The Winter Within, which took the Kb New Currents Audience Award, and Vinay Shukla’s documentary While We Watched, which was presented with the Busan Cinephile Award (see full list of winners below...

Korean film “A Wild Roomer” and India’s “Shivamma” have been announced as the joint winners of the New Currents competition, the prestige discovery section of the Busan International Film Festival.

“We were particularly sensitive to the lightness and subtlety of the director’s view of his characters. Through his innovative cinematography, he creates original circulations between the characters within a house, and builds a very contemporary universe,” the competition jury said of the Lee Jeon-hong-directed “A Wild Roomer.”

“We appreciated the originality and intensity with which the director was able to tell this very contemporary story. Here documentary and fiction meet in an organic and spirited way of making cinema. The generosity of the actors and the scenes create a closeness with this universal story that takes place in an Indian village,” the jury said of the Jaishankar Aryar-directed “Shivamma.”

“A Wild Roomer” also picked up the Netpac...