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Now in its sixth year, The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival will for the first time be expanding to serve audiences in Birmingham. The Festival includes a selection of special screenings at the mac birmingham and Cineworld Broad Street and will run in the city from 20 – 26 July.
In just six years the festival has become Europe’s largest South Asian Film Festival as it aims to bring the very best of new Indian independent cinema, which includes features, documentaries and short films by acclaimed and emerging filmmakers. This year the festival is joined by new Title Sponsor the Bagri Foundation, a charity that promotes the best of Indian arts through its diverse cultural programmes, and supported by BBC WM, Cineworld, Desiblitz, mac birmingham, Sampad and Pure Heaven.
mac birmingham will host five screenings as part of the festival, opening with Labor of Love on Tuesday 21 July, which will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Aditya Vikram Sengupta, and closing with Obstacle, directed by Bhaurao Karhade, on Sunday 26 July.
LIFF will run in London between 16 - 23 July, across a number of prestigious venues including ICA, BFI Southbank, Cineworld Haymarket, Wembley, Wood Green, Wandsworth and the O2. The Festival will showcase an incredible array of some of the most prestigious and thought-provoking new independent films from the Indian sub-continent. Highlights include: Berlinale winner Dhanak (Rainbow), Toronto premiere documentary Monsoon, Bengali art-house hit Asha Jaoar Majhe (Labour of Love) and the bold M Cream starring Imaad Shah (son of Nasseeruddin Shah) and Ira Dubey (daughter of Lillette Dubey). UK premieres in Birmingham include Slumdog-like Kakkaa Mattai (The Crow’s Egg) and Khwada (Obstacle).
LIFF 2015 promises to be an incredible mix of independent and documentary films that celebrates every aspect of South Asian lifestyle and culture. Films are in a range of South Asian languages and all are English subtitled.
See here for more information- http://londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/ - http://londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/birmingham.htm - http://macbirmingham.co.uk/london-indian-film-festival/
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