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Siddhant Adlakha

Siddhant Adlakha

Siddhant Adlakha is a filmmaker, television writer and film critic based in Mumbai and New York. Follow him on Twitter: @SidizenKane

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A close-up film still shows a group of young men in military-style uniforms crowded tightly together, shouting and laughing around a central figure.

Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ Renders Queer Desire Against the Machinery of War

By Siddhant Adlakha
Two teenagers descend an outdoor staircase in Italy.

Screening at Cannes: Marine Atlan’s ‘La Gradiva’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A young man with curly hair wearing a green military-style shirt sits in a tiled room, playing a brass trumpet with his eyes closed, focused on the instrument.

Screening at Cannes: Los Javis’ ‘La Bola Negra’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A family poses in front of a Nordic landscape

Screening at Cannes: Cristian Mungiu’s ‘Fjord’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A woman with pink ombre hair and thick gold hoop earrings looks up and to the side

Screening at SXSW: Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A man and a woman in wedding garb react jubilantly while holding hands in front of a red car in what appears to be a paused video

Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: Alain Gomis’s ‘Dao’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A black and white image of a woman in a hat and high-necked coat with a piece of straw stuck in her mouth

Screening at the Berlin Film Festival: Markus Schleinzer’s ‘Rose’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A grainy color film still shows a crowded living room where several older Black men and women sit and stand close together, some gesturing animatedly and holding drinks, as one man in a red sweater leans forward mid-speech during a lively group discussion.

Screening at Sundance: David Greaves’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Harlem’

By Siddhant Adlakha
A man on the left and a woman on the right gaze into each other's eyes

Screening at Sundance: Gregg Araki’s ‘I Want Your Sex’

By Siddhant Adlakha

The Best Documentaries of 2025

By Siddhant Adlakha
A man in jeans and a dark T-shirt lies on his back on a red carpeted floor with one hand on his chest beside a crate filled with vinyl records, suggesting a reflective or exhausted moment at home.

Screening at NYFF: Scott Cooper’s ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’

By Siddhant Adlakha
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