Resurrection of an Important Festival, after 3 years   Lekha Shankar, in N.Delhi The Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival of Indian, Asian and Arab Cinema, one of the pioneering festivals for Asian cinema, founded by the dynamic Aruna Vasudev, made  a come-back after three years, to New Delhi, India, pleasing the many film buffs  in the country. After all, this is the Indian capital city’s only film festival, at a time when nearly every city in the country, ...

Did you know  the wooden horse from the 2004 film Troy, is preserved on the seafront at Çanakkale, Turkey?   ( The Trojan Horse was a wooden contraption  in which Greek soldiers hid to trick  the Trojans into opening their city gates, thus losing their long drawn out war. Helen,wife of King Menelaus of Sparta was "given" by the goddess Aphrodite  to Paris, who  was married and deeply in love with a nymph named Oenone, but left her for Helen. The Spartan queen eloped with ...

The fourth annual 2007 South Asian International Film Festival will be held from October 3-9, 2007 in New York City.The festival will present the North American Premiere of Rajshree Ojha's CHAURAHEN (Crossroads) at the Clearview Cinema at Lincoln Square on October 6, 2007. The film, almost like snippets of collected photographs, brings together similar disconnected people in search forsomething to overcome the mundane of reality. It is a film, which isvery different from anything seen in moder...