Festivals

London Film Festival 2021 : Opens with African-American cowboy caper, ‘The Harder they fall’ and look out for these…

Our final preview before the 65th BFI London Film Festival begins tomorrow – more than 150 feature films will be…

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‘Paka’ (‘River of Blood’): ‘A home-grown film that is being shown around the world’ (video, Toronto International Film Festival 2021)

It had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and we caught up with debutant filmmaker Nithin Lukose…

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Film festival bird bites: ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’ Toronto award, ‘Paka’; Satyajit Ray London weekend; ‘Invisible Demons’ capital to capital -TIFF, LIFF and LFF…

TIFF 2021 Amplify Voices Award; ‘Paka’ coming to acv *Click to see pictures – A Night of Knowing Nothing (centre);…

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‘Avijatrik’ (‘The Wanderlust of Apu’) – new follow-on film to Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ (‘The World of Apu’) comes to England for the first time…

English cinemagoers’ first opportunity to see keenly anticipated new Indian film inspired by – and made partly as a tribute…

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Venice 2021 (wrap): Awards for ‘Happening’; Penelope Cruz; Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Erik Matti; John Arcilla and Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Hand of God’ among others…

The 78th Venice Film Festival had an impressive line-up of films this year and many will feel the starting gun…

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Venice 2021 – director Seemab Gul’s ‘Mulaqat’ (‘Sandstorm’) asks powerful questions about online ‘relationships’ and shows abundant promise…

Emerging British Pakistani filmmaker makes a mark with short… SHOT with poise, elegant in its framing, and well-acted, it’s not…

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Venice 2021 (video): Bengali star actor Sreelekha Mitra – “Sometimes a woman can manipulate a man and if she wants it to be physical, it’s her choice”

STAR of Bengali screen – Sreelekha Mitra doesn’t hold back in talking about her character, Ela’s situation in the film,…

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Venice 2021 (video): ‘Once upon a time in Calcutta’ writer-director Aditya Vikram Sengupta: “I wanted to explore the city through people and their mindsets”

‘ONCE UPON A TIME IN CALCUTTA’ is a film that had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival…

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London Film Festival 2021 (early preview) – look out for Riz Ahmed, Adeel Akhtar and Asif Kapadia and two Indian films and comedy, ‘7 days’…

We’ve highlighted some films which we think will pique your interest, asianculturevultures from this year’s offering at the 65th British…

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Venice Film Festival 2021 (preview): See Hollywood royalty on Lido red carpet, expect to hear more about these films as well as India’s ‘Once Upon a time in Kolkata’ and short title from Pakistan…

Our correspondents look at the big films premiering at Venice and what the particular South Asian interest will be there…

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