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Oct- 2022 -19 October
Three Indian films bag awards at the Busan International Film Festival 2022 (October 5-14)
🎥12 Indian films screened in South Korea, 11 of them new independent films🎥 Shivama, The Winter Within and the documentary,…
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13 October
LFF 2022: Update – Crows Are White (Ahsen Nadeem); The Cloud Messenger (Rahat Mahajan); Faraaz (Hansal Mehta); Creature (Asif Kapadia-Akram Khan)
Just a quick update from here London 7.30pm BST ‘Crows are White‘ – This film by Ahsen Nadeem is an…
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11 October
‘Orpheus’ Re-imagined: Composer Jasdeep Singh Degun talks about bringing together Eastern and Western music for Opera North production…
17th century classic early opera gets Indian classical music ‘make-over’ from rising talent… IN WHAT seems like a bold move,…
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6 October
London Film Festival Opening Gala Film Red Carpet – Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical (video coming!)
Watch soon! WE WERE on the red carpet last night (October 5) for the Opening Gala film of the London…
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Sep- 2022 -30 September
Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: ‘Brahmastra’ puts ooomph back into box office numbers
Epic starrer has reawakened the mainstream cinema market and has paid attention to new trends, including star Ranbir Kapoor talking…
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27 September
TIFF 2022 (cont: part II): SS Rajamouli & Hollywood; Shekhar Kapur and Shabana Azmi help inaugurate exhibition space and India’s NFDC promotes Land of Storytellers and IFFI53…
We continue our round-up of Tiff 2022 (cont)… TOP INDIAN director SS Rajamouli, whose film ‘RRR’ (‘Rise Roar Revolt’) has…
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20 September
‘Antigone’ – The Power and the Glory but whose? Classic Greek tragedy recast as urban potboiler
For the most part it works but having a Muslim family at the centre of it has both advantages and…
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17 September
Venice Film Festival 2022 – Italy and India pledge closer cultural relationship through film; Kabir Bedi award; Hrishitaa Bhatt interview and main festival gongs (wrap)…
Well-known actors Hrishitaa Bhatt and Kabir Bedi were both in Venice and our correspondent charts closer film ties between Italy…
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16 September
‘Silence’ – Bringing the Partition of India to life in this moving dramatisation…
Fine play tells individual stories… By Suman Bhuchar TO MARK the 75th anniversary of the Partition of India, artistic director…
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13 September
Artists, academics respond to sad death of longest-reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II – dissenting voices criticism
Reaction to passing… SEVERAL members of the Asian artistic community have been recounting their experiences, talking with the Queen and/or…
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