Film
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Mar- 2025 -27 March
‘Village Rockstars 2’ – Aspiring teenager’s rural life ebbs and flows beautifully captured (Berlinale 75)
After its award-winning world premiere in Busan, South Korea, audiences in Europe had the chance to see for themselves another…
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27 March
Berlinale 2025 (75): All reviews – Honey Bunch; Sorda; Yunan; The Settlement; The Incredible Snow Woman; The Safe House
We review the non South Asian films we saw at the Berlin International Film Festival, known as commonly as Berlinale……
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18 March
BFI Flare 2025 – South Asian politics, Transfemme, Polyamory, Coming Out with a difference; and Desi Queers
South Asian interest films at one of the world’s largest and most highly regarded LGBTQIA+ platforms… BRITAIN’S leading festival showcasing…
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17 March
‘Pink’ – BFI Flare: Father and son tale stars Gordon Warnecke in Yassa Khan life to screen ‘out’ story (video interview)
First time writer-director draws from his own life in this searing tale described by some as a British ‘Goodfellas’… VERY…
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16 March
‘Before I do’ – BFI Flare – “Beyond acceptance” and dreaming freely… (video interview)
Short film has original and imaginative take on a South Asian woman’s impending marriage… EXPLORING the queer space from a…
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14 March
‘Sister Midnight’ – Black comedy film: out in the UK today…
We covered this film since its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last year https:/portfolios/cannes-2024-sister-midnight-radhika-aptas-brilliance-new-british-writer-director-karan-kandhari-comic-absurd-tour-de-force/ https:/portfolios/lff-2024-sister-midnight-writer-director-karan-kandhari-on-his-genre-busting-filmvideo/
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10 March
‘Mehrunisa’ – Changing perceptions with 80 year old star lead: Farrukh Jaffar
Film seeks to challenge stereotypes and tackle feudal mindsets still around… BREAKING with Bollywood conventions, writer-director choose to centre his…
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7 March
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7 March
‘Picture This’ – Interviews with Sindhu Vee, Anoushka Chadha, Asim Chaudhry, Prarthana Mohan and Nikita Lalwani…
Story is written by award-winning novelist Nikita Lalwani… WATCH our interviews with the stars behind a big, glitzy London set…
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5 March
Oscars 2025: Nominated Indian short saw one time street kid Sadja Pathan in LA
From surviving on the streets in India to Hollywood glamour… what cinema dreams are made of… WHILE the shortlisted short…
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