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London Film Festival 2024: ‘Last Swim’ – Sasha Nathwani & Deba Hekmat – and more on the page…

See the talent coming to London Film Festival 2024 (October 9-20) talk about their films with acv editor Sailesh Ram……

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LFF 2024 – BFI Festival director Kristy Matheson on ‘All We Imagine as Light’, ‘Santosh’, ’Sister Midnight’ and US ‘A Nice Indian Boy’ (video)

Three films which wowed audiences in Cannes this year are coming to London, two have British Asian directors, while rising…

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‘The Real Ones’ – award-winning Waleed Akhtar on his new play which puts friendship under the spotlight…

Actor and playwright opens up about his new production, ‘The Real Ones’ currently at The Bush Theatre in West London……

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‘Antony and Cleopatra’: A unique theatrical experiment has the deaf community calling for more British Sign Language (BSL) productions

The Globe theatre’s bilingual production using BSL and spoken word has resonated widely, especially with people within the South Asian…

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‘Vitamin D’ – Exploding taboos, tackling divorce as a subject not of shame, Saher Shah is a powerful new voice…

Talented writer and performer talks to us about her debut award-winning play… By Suman Bhuchar THE SHOW which toured nationally…

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Venice 81 (2024): ‘Pooja, Sir’ world premiere – director Deepak Rauniyar and lead Asha Magrati talk racism, sexism and descrimination… (video)

Watch the video – more below… FILMMAKER Deepak Rauniyar is one of Nepal’s leading filmmakers and works closely with his wife…

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Bollywood asianculturevulture vibes: One hit; Aki and Devgn flops and Kangana’s troubles with ‘Emergency’

As star names fail the litmus test at the box office, here’s a lowdown on what the chatter is, in…

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‘Martin’ film – ACV reporter-videographer Natalie Barrass becomes ‘international celebrity’ journalist – A Mumbai tale…

Reputed to have cost more than 100 Crores (nearly £10 million), the talents behind this South Indian language film launched…

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Brown Women Comedy – Seeing the funny side of Besharam (shame)

Several brown women comedians are performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year and doing so as Brown Women Comedy…

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Spoken word artist Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan explains how debut play ‘Peanut and Blueberries’ emerged…

Poet, activist and educator presents her first ever drama – and talks to us about its larger themes and we…

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