Search Results for: Riz Ahmed
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Festivals
Berlinale 70: Riz Ahmed in ‘Mogul Mowgli’ ; Indian indy smash ‘Eeb Allay Ooo’, ‘The Shepherdhess and Seven Songs’, and ‘Sthalpuran’ and filmmaker Rima Das in Berlin, as well Indian rugby film ‘Jungle Cry’…
Berlin Film Festival starts tomorrow (February 20) – as this year’s award season closed on Oscar’s evening with the incredible…
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Art
Riz Ahmed highest ranked arts personality in annual British Asian Power List 101…
The GG2 Power List 2020 is out… JUST over a third of the country’s most powerful Asians work in the…
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Festivals
Controversial ‘Hitler film’ wins top Grolsch People’s Award at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and our TIFF 2019 (Dev Patel, Riz Ahmed, Farhan Akhtar and Priyanka Chopra, Jennifer Lopez, Natalie Portman and Adam Sandler)
The awards and a more personal take on our coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival 2019… By Sailesh Ram…
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Riz Ahmed in ‘Sound of Metal’ has depth and power – Toronto International Film Festival 2019 premiere
Toronto Plays heavy metal drummer who suffers from profound hearing loss By Sailesh Ram REFLECTIVE and gentle (not always), ‘Sound…
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Festivals
Riz Ahmed talks to acv about ‘Sound of Metal’ at its world premiere in Toronto (#TIFF19)
Video was first posted to YouTube on Friday (September 7)
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Festivals
Cannes 2019 reviews: Prize-winning films: ‘Atlantique’, ‘Young Ahmed’, and ‘Bacurau’
Remembrance of Things past, hauntings and modern migration… THE NOW-AWARD winning ‘Atlantique’ (‘Atlantics’) is an assured debut by Mati Diop,…
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Main Story
‘When the Fire’s Gone Out’ – playwright Naylah Ahmed talks about the idea of ‘home’ that inspired Kali week of plays coming to Tara Theatre
Two mothers. Terrorism, pain, grief, loss and where the idea of home reverberates powerfully in this new work… By Suman…
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Festivals
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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Film
Bird Bites: Unnati & Jyotsna jazz; modern take on ballad of ‘Mohaur Pala’; Six South Asian books vye for $25,000 literary prize; corporate doc has human tale of beauty and help across continents
Bite-size takes on music coming up, a books prize shortlist announced in London and how stories are being told in…
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Film
Film Bird Bites – New role for ‘Lagaan’ director; Aneil Karia new short; Sundance winner heads to UK and ‘Ramayana’ blockbuster buzz
Ashutosh Gowariker appointed director of Indian Film Festival of India (IFFI) FILMMAKER Ashutosh Gowariker (pictured above) has been appointed festival…
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