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Sep- 2021 -4 September
TV Bird Bites: Bollywood stars tribute to Indian TV star Sidharth Shukla; ITV’s powerful ‘Stephen’; Edinburgh TV Festival ‘We are Lady Parts’ and Tan France
Indian TV personality and actor Sidharth Shukla dies Sidharth Shukla (Instagram) A HOUSEHOLD name in India – actor and presenter…
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Aug- 2021 -24 August
‘Souad’ – brilliant and intimate portrait of teenage life and online pressures and challenges… (review)
Festival favourite is now a British Film Institute (BFI) release and available to see in cinemas in the UK… (mild…
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Jul- 2021 -31 July
‘Evening Conversations’ (and ‘Life Laundry’) – the real talk that we should all be having… (review)
One-woman show is poignant, powerful and funny and makes for a wonderful evening… SUDHA BHUCHAR has a great story to…
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28 July
‘East is East’ – full cast announced, play celebrates 25 years…
Popular play is back from the autumn… ‘EAST IS EAST’ – the original play celebrates 25 years this year with…
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23 July
‘Under the Mask’: Audio drama that moves and illuminates life on a covid ward as seen through a young Asian frontline doctor (review)
In March and April last year, hospitals started filling up with people who had come down with coronavirus (covid) and…
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21 July
Cannes 2021: It’s a wrap – looking back at the best and full list of award winners and comments…
Seen our reviews and interviews – what do you like the most – comment via the Facebook link or on…
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21 July
Cannes 2021 – Asghar Fahadi’s ‘A Hero’/‘Ghahreman ’ wins Grand Prix award (video review and reaction)
One of the world’s great filmmakers was back in Cannes and his latest film went down well with both the…
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19 July
Cannes 2021: ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ top documentary award for filmmaker Payal Kapadia… (video interview)
A young filmmaker was handed a prestigious award triumphing over some much bigger names… acv caught up with her just…
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16 July
Cannes 2021: Will Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titane’ win Palme d’Or or will old French favourites Jacques Audiard and Francis Ozon triumph?
It is the last full day of films screening at the Cannes Film Festival and we look at the features…
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15 July
Malayalam language cinema on a roll as ‘Mālik’ drops on Amazon Prime today (July 15)…
One of India’s many regional language cinemas is rising in stature as our Indian cinema correspondent looks at the commercial…
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