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Subversion and dissent – the need to highlight hypocrisy and combat discrimination in its many guises (‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘Brick Lane’)

UK Asian Film Festival and Southall Black Sisters screen films and host debate which warns of creeping acceptance of backward…

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‘The Massacre that shook the Empire’ – Sathnam Sanghera says the country should apologise for Jallianwala Bagh killings and examine Empire more…

British journalist of Sikh Punjabi heritage goes to Amritsar for TV documentary… BRITAIN has never really confronted its Imperial past…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: Pictures, gallery from Closing Gala

Our pictures from the closing gala event at the British Academy of Film & Television Academy (BAFTA, Piccadilly) Put cursor…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: Legendary ‘Sholay’ director Ramesh Sippy says next challenge is webseries, curtain comes down – London, Radhika Apte on power, Shabana Azmi on women taking helm and awards…

🎥 Legendary ‘Sholay’ film director Ramesh Sippy to create webseries 🎥 Talks to acv about ‘Sholay’ (1975), its casting and…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Evening Shadows’ (review) – Parents take centre stage in coming out drama…

Confronting prejudice in conservative environments… LOVE is such a precious gift that we should never lose it lightly – whether…

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‘Raghu Rai – An unframed portrait’: Master and daughter snap about the art of taking pictures…

Iconic photographer has lens turned on him in revealing portrait… RAGHU RAI is one of the world’s best known-photographers –…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: Struggle not submission – Southall Black Sisters 40 years and drawing the dots between then and now…

🎥 Founder of Southall Black Sisters (SBS) said she is more scared now than during the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Ek Aasha’ – acv reception – #LGBT rights, equality and change through film… (video)

We hosted a reception for this film and here’s why…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Ek Asha’ (review) – transgender as it is…

Film challenges conventions on both sides… IT IS NOT very often we get to see or hear from people mostly…

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UK Asian Film Festival 2019: ‘Ek Aasha’ director Mayur Katariya talks about his transgender film prior to screening…(FB video – click)

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