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IFFAM 2019 reviews: Award winners among films we saw – ‘Give Me Liberty’; ‘Buoyancy’; ‘Better Days’ and ‘Family Members’, ‘Two/One’; and ‘Homecoming’

Watch out for these films as they come to the UK… Give Me Liberty (Kirill Mikhanovsky) THAT this ended up…

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‘Homing Birds’ – Exploring the notion of home and identity with writer Rukshana Ahmad as curtain about to fall on new play (tomorrow) …

Co-founder of Kali Theatre discusses her new play that is inspired by real-life stories from Afghanistan… By Suman Bhuchar TALKING…

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Jatinder Verma leaving Tara Arts – a personal perspective…

ACV’s deputy editor and head of theatre ruminates on a shock departure… By Suman Bhuchar THAT Jatinder Verma, artistic director…

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‘Mai Ghat – Crime no.103/2005’: A mother’s 13-year fight for justice for her murdered son powerfully and beautifully rendered… (review) IFFI 50

Film featured in both Indian Panorama section and International Competition of International Film Festival of India (IFFI) at its Golden…

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IFFI 50: Final day closing ceremony and film (November 28) – Stars talk films, fans and what they have learnt…Vijay Deverakondara, Rakul Preet Singh, Ilaiyaraaja, Farah Khan…(yesterday)

Goa 9am TWO CLOSING talks were the highlight of the bird’s day covering the International Film Festival of India (IFFI)…

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IFFI50 hears from big names as festival moves to its final day tomorrow (November 28)

Goa 10am A BIG SLICE of Hollywood landed up in Goa as three prominent figures from the West shared their…

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Anil Kapoor at IFFI50 – being a character actor is what made me!

Goa 12pm Slumdog Millionaire and 24 star was in Goa talk about his illustrious career… ONE OF BOLLYWOOD’S most enduring…

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Bird Bites: Unnati & Jyotsna jazz; modern take on ballad of ‘Mohaur Pala’; Six South Asian books vye for $25,000 literary prize; corporate doc has human tale of beauty and help across continents

Bite-size takes on music coming up, a books prize shortlist announced in London and how stories are being told in…

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Humble The Poet – from down and out to social media global spoken word star… (Bagri Foundation Asia House Festival of Literature closing event)

The artist shared stories about his life and talked about his latest book to a sold-out event in Central London……

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Riz Ahmed highest ranked arts personality in annual British Asian Power List 101…

The GG2 Power List 2020 is out… JUST over a third of the country’s most powerful Asians work in the…

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