Festivals

London Film Festival 2020: ‘After Love’ – Dance of secret past and present make for compelling family saga… (review)

A British Muslim woman learns about herself and her husband’s other life following his demise… CULTURALLY rich and socially charged,…

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London Film Festival 2020: Awards and reviews to come (more soon)

The London Film Festival (October 7-18) ended yesterday evening with its annual awards announcement (see here)… This year audiences voted…

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London Film Festival 2020: Preview of the IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Bursary Award in association with the BFI (£50,000 prize) – ‘After Love’, ‘Ammonite’, and ‘Wildfire’

Three British filmmakers are up for what is widely regarded as one of the leading film awards for emerging UK…

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London Film Festival 2020 British Shorts Filmmakers: ‘Stray Dogs Come Out At Night (Dr Mina Husain); ‘Happy Thuggish Paki’ (Hardeep Pandhal); ‘Jambo Cinema (Dawinder Bansal)…

British short and experimental creators talk about their work featured at London Film Festival – you can vote on your…

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London Film Festival 2020: ‘The Salt In Our Waters’ – a melancholic modern-day fable where moments of brilliance are abundant (Review)

By Momtaz Begum-Hossain OPENING with desolate scenes of a grey seascape, there’s a melancholic edge to ‘The Salt In Our…

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London Film Festival 2020: Riz Ahmed career talk; Mogul Mowgli red carpet and Doosra discussion…

STAR Riz Ahmed told viewers to an online London Film Festival (LFF) talk that he hopes to make make more…

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London Film Festival 2020 – Mogul Mowgli: Riz Ahmed’s on-screen parents’ Alyy Khan and Sudha Bhuchar talk family, culture and artistic legacy…(video)

Film has UK premiere tomorrow (October 10) and screens again on October 13 and is on genral release from October…

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London Film Festival 2020: ‘Mangrove’ – Moving and timely slice of British history… (Review)

Film helped to open this year’s hybrid London Film Festival (LFF) and was destined for Cannes before that – which…

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London Film Festival 2020: ‘The Disciple’ – Ancient and modern clash in this absorbing study of an aspiring musican… (review)

This film is only young writer-director’s second, but is already making waves around the world and was executively produced by…

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London Film Festival 2020: ‘Mogul Mowgli’ – Riz Ahmed: “This is an unapologetically brown film, unapologetically bold in its creative vision”

British star and US director Bassam Tariq have together produced a film of rare and sumptuous riches that will reverberate…

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