Director Mani Ratnam will be honoured with the “Glory to the Filmmaker Award” at the Venice Film Festival.

Crowds crammed to see the stars walk the red carpet, champagne flowed, fireworks filled the sky and screenings were packed, yet the Cannes film festival hit halfway on Monday lacking one key ingredien

Mrinal Sen’s Kandahar (The Ruins), screened in the “classics” section of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival here, appeared as fresh from the laboratory as it must have been in 1984.