Festivals
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Mar- 2021 -17 March
BFI Flare 2021 – What to look out for at online LGBTIQ+ festival…
12 days of exceptional films and a wide choice… By Suman Bhuchar IT IS THE UK’S LONGEST-RUNNING queer film festival…
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16 March
Akademi Dance Film Festival 2021: Artistic director Subathra Subramaniam tells us about this new initiative exploring lockdown, sexuality, motherhood, artistic practice and other topical subjects…
Dance company has commissioned new work and will be talking to Hetain Patel, winner of the prestigious Jarman Prize… ONE…
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5 March
Bird Bites: International Womens’ Day (listings March 7-); creative and professional women: festivals, theatre, talks, books and films…
We look at how UN International Womens Day on Monday March 8 is being marked… Women of the World (Wow)…
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Feb- 2021 -16 February
Bird Bites: Hymn; Letters to Earth Live; French like Faiza; Jibanananda Das Festival; Eastern Eye Actas; Rifco comedy…
What you might want to catch this week – with three online events tomorrow! World premiere for Lolita Chakrabarti play…
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4 February
Sundance 2021: Indian success for documentary about all women media team in ‘Writing with Fire’; Riz Ahmed ‘Flee’ also wins award; ‘Fire in the Mountains’ world premiere…(wrap and links)
Sundance 2021 finished yesterday and announced its winners the evening before… FIRST-TIME feature filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh are…
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4 February
Sundance 2021 – Indian film ‘Fire in the Mountains’ brilliantly encapsulates the challenges of modernity versus tradition… (Review)
This is the second Indian film that enjoyed its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday (February 1)……
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4 February
Sundance 2021 – Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir; Cusp; First Date…(reviews)
Three very different films but all part of the Sundance 2021 experience… ‘Amy Tan – Unintended Memoir’ A still from…
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1 February
Riz Ahmed executively produced film ‘Flee’ wows Sundance and bags first deal of festival
Star will feature in English language version of Danish animation production which premiered at the opening of the Sundance Film…
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1 February
Sundance 2021 – ‘Flee’ – dramatic and emotional story uses animation and archive footage to great effect in Afghan refugee tale…(review)
Story starts with an interview… EXECUTIVELY produced by Riz Ahmed, this is a very moving, emotional, and powerful film. It…
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1 February
Sundance 2021:Reviews – Indian film, ‘Writing with Fire’; 1920s race drama – ‘Passing’; and ‘I am not your negro’ director Raoul Peck and Viola Davis’ JuVee and Michelle Obama role talk summaries…
What we have seen so far at this year’s top Indie festival which is online this year with no physical…
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