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After watching Jaggi, I am at a loss for words. It’s so hard-hitting and disturbing—it makes me want to cry, scream, and just be vulnerable. Jaggi also needed to show all these emotions but couldn’t for fear of being misunderstood, not only by society but also by his own parents. The film is so impactful and distressing, and I feel pain for all who are subjected to conditions as Jaggi. For his impotence, he is referred to as being gay, while at the same time, he gets abused by those same people—how ironic and disturbing it is! On a similar topic, we’ve seen films like Shubh Mangal Saavdhan before, but I think that movie took a much more filtered and palatable approach where it ended on a more positive note, like an “all’s well that ends well” type of magical land. But for those...

Steffi Niederzoll’s Berlin, Cph: Dox and El Gouna-winning documentary “Seven Winters in Tehran” added another award to its collection with the best international film honor at India’s inaugural Cinevesture International Festival (Ciff).

Anmol Sidhu’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominee “Jaggi” won best Indian film and Elham Ehsas’ BAFTA and Clermont-Ferrand nominee “Yellow” was named as best short.

The festival took place March 27-31 in Chandigarh, northern India. A three-day phone filmmaking workshop hosted by Chitkara International School and produced by Cinevesture saw students from five schools participating with Ritisha Sinha’s film “Unveiled” from Mount Carmel School winning an award.

Former Cannes film market director Jerome Paillard, Indian actor and producer Rana Daggubati (“Baahubali”) and Nicole Guillemet, who was co-director of the Sundance Film Festival, and Indian filmmaker Ajitpal Singh (Sundance title “Fire in the Mountains”) are on the festival advisory board.

The festival had an accompanying...

A theatre artiste and content specialist, Anmol Sidhu has revealed he has watched filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s videos to shoot his Punjabi feature film ‘Jaggi’.

Presented at the ‘India Unveiled’ section of the Cinevesture International Film Festival (Ciff), ‘Jaggi’ is a 117-minute film directed, written and edited by Anmol.

The film’s lead actor is Ramnish Chaudhary, who plays Jagdeep Singh aka Jaggi. It also features Harmandeep Singh, Gaurav Kumar, Shivam Kamboj and Aks Mehra in pivotal roles.

The movie addresses issues like discrimination, sexual abuse, and mental health.

Talking to Ians, Anmol talked about the procedure he followed for shooting this movie.

He said: “I watched Anurag Kashyap sir’s videos. He has said in the videos that we can make films with the help of a phone, a film can be made from the left out reels. So, I purchased a camera, I didn’t know how to handle it,...

Festival ran from April 28-May 1.

Once Upon A Time In Calcutta and Jaggi have triumphed at 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla).

Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Once Upon A Time In Calcutta won the grand jury prize for best feature film while Anmol Sidhu’s Jaggi took the inaugural Uma da Cunha Award for best feature film debut as well as the Audience Choice Award for best feature.

In the short film category, the grand jury prize went to Amrita Bagchi’s Succulent and the grand jury prize for best short in the inaugural Spotlight on South Asia section...

The 2022 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (Iffla) has announced the winners of its annual filmmaker awards, with Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Once Upon a Time in Calcutta” winning the grand jury prize for feature film. Anmol Sidhu’s “Jaggi” was the recipient of the Uma da Cunha Award for feature film debut, as well as the audience choice award for feature.

“This year’s edition of the film festival was wonderful in so many ways,” said Iffla executive director Christina Marouda. “The excitement felt by the reunion of so many of our filmmakers, patrons, and film fans back in the theaters was something we all shared. The months and weeks leading to the festival, we weren’t sure whether people would show up after a three-year break from an in-person festival. We were overwhelmed to see everyone coming back, eager to reconnect with the community and the Iffla family,...

In-person event to run April 28-May 1 .

The world premiere of Anmol Sidhu’s drama Jaggi is expected to be among the highlights as Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles (Iffla) returns to in-person screenings and events for its 20th anniversary edition.

Among other activities this year’s festival running April 28-May 1 will inaugurate Spotlight On South Asia, unveil a filmmaker mentorship, stage a live script-read previewing an Iffla alumnus’s next feature project, and screen shorts from the festival’s history with pre-festival screenings of shorts by Iffla alumni in association with NewFilmmakers Los Angeles.

The line-up of 10 features includes...