Festivals

Toronto International Film Festival 2019: Dev Patel in ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ (tonight; early hours UK)

(September 4 Toronto 10pm) DEV PATEL will appear in director Armando Iannucci’s film here this evening. It will be a…

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Venice Film Festival 2019 – ‘Chola’ (‘Shadow of water’) violently tackles India gender issues

Director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan speaks to acv about his hard-hitting drama in which three people wind up in a bad…

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London Film Festival 2019: Dev Patel, Bollywood stars and Indian Indies and Bangladesh doc all set for capital glitz

Dev Patel, Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar amongst the stars who feature in the line up at the 63rd BFI…

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‘Bombay Rose’ today at Venice Film Festival and ‘Chola’ (see trailer for ‘Bombay Rose’)

Two Indian films with bite come to the Venice Film Festival this year… A MUCH-anticipated animated feature about young people…

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Mira Nair on Indian cinema now and that Camera d’Or (1988) and staying true to yourself…

Renowned filmmaker talked about 1988 and ‘Salaam Bombay’ as well as more contemporary themes (and more to come on ‘A…

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Our videos from Cannes 2019 #Cannes2019 #Cannesacv2019 #Cannesacv19

Why we made a couple of less time specific mini-featurettes… EARLIER this year a lot of you will know we…

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Edinburgh International Book Festival: Our picks… (Edinburgh 2019 part III)

Who are the authors in Edinburgh? By Suman Bhuchar IF YOU ARE LOOKING for books and authors to get inspired…

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Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019 – What’s yours? Our guide: theatre (Part I)

So many shows? So little time, we have some suggestions… By Suman Bhuchar IT’S THAT time of year when many…

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Waltham Forest Mela musical extravaganza and more as London Borough of Culture seeks to entertain…

Traditional mela but new initiatives open it up, says Sba Shaikh creative producer…and artist Shama Rahman talks music, poetry and…

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Award-winning filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan heads to Venice and tells acv what new film is about; also Dev Patel and Priyanka Chopra Jonas to be in Toronto

International film festival season will start at the end of next month and here’s a quick acv guide to what’s…

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