UK Asian Film Festival
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Festivals
UK Asian Film Festival 2021: ‘The Beatles and India’ documentary brings curtain down, album set to release, West looked to India in 60s, and all UKAFF winners announced…(festival wrap)
🎥World premiere of ‘The Beatles and India’🎥Film has unseen archive footage of Fab Four in Rishikesh, the Himalayan town they…
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UK Asian Film Festival 2021 – ‘I am Belmaya’ – the inspirational story of the Nepali filmmaker from care home to documentary maker…
Born in poverty in a Nepali village, Belmaya’s future looked utterly bleak until she got to play with a camera…
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UK Asian Film Festival 2021: ‘Toofaan Mail’, Queen of Awadh story, hits London after world premiere in UK City of Culture… (video)
Filmmaker/auteur Akriti SIngh tells acv why she was inpsired to make the film about a true story… A REAL life…
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UK Asian Film Festival 2021: ‘Raahgir’ (‘The Wayfarers’) opening gala film sets tone for fest dedicated to Satyajit Ray legacy…
The country’s longest running South Asian themed film festival opened with a film that speaks to the world about the…
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UK Asian Film Festival 2021: Actor Adil Hussain talks about humanity, lockdown, and the relevance of the opening gala film, ‘Raaghir’ (‘The Wayfarers’) in these covid times…
Star is in isolation in Delhi and spoke about this film which opens tonight at the BFI Southbank in London…
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UK Asian Film Festival 2021 – Six feature films to look out for; new talent shorts inspired by Satyajit Ray; India charity appeal and Nina Wadia in conversation…
🎥Mix of both physical screenings and online – hybrid🎥Will highlight British Asian Trust Emergency Oxygen for India Emergency Appeal🎥Star Nina…
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Bird Bites: UK Asian Film Festival, International Satyajit Ray Congress, Hotel Salvation, Stephen Lawrence Day star turns, women changemakers, and Take-Awasian
A round-up of what’s coming up and what’s happened… A chance to relive that time when the Beatles went to…
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‘Lipstick Under my Burkha’ filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava to be in conversation with UK Asian Film Festival this Sunday
Ground-breaking director and writer sits down to discuss her work… ACCLAIMED director Alankrita Shrivastava is to be in conversation with…
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UK Asian Film Festival 2020: ‘Zindagi Na Milega Dobara’ hitting the road, Mushaira, director interviews, talking therapy and more on its way…
Britain’s longest-established South Asian inspired film festival has a busy period ahead as its founder and director tells us… IT’S…
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Main Headlines
ACV Lockdown Listings : ‘Dots’ – World premiere lockdown film supported by UKAFF; Anurag Kashyap LIFFathome interview; ‘Made In India’ play; Anti-racism ‘We R not Virus’ performances; Nitin Ganatra in Tara Tales, ‘The Panchatantra’
Film festivals are finding new ways to deliver content to eager audiences and East Asian Brits take on racism…* Films/Filmmakers…
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