59 h. ago 'Heads of State' London premiere: John Cena expresses gratitude to Indian fans

'Heads of State' London premiere: John Cena expresses gratitude to Indian fans - 'I wouldn’t be here with  The Times of India

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67 h. ago Brenda Blethyn's 'gripping' new thriller confirms UK screening and its not far away

Vera star Brenda Blethyn stars alongside Andrea Riseborough and Jason Watkins in new film Dragonfly which will be first screened in the UK at Edinburgh International Film Festival

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3 d. ago Jack Lowden: Play by Slow Horses star from Edinburgh International Festival to be screened in UK cinemas

The play was originally created by National Theatre of Scotland

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4 d. ago Identity of Harry Styles mystery woman he was kissing at Glastonbury revealed as Londoner

The former One Direction star set tongues wagging after being captured on film passionately kissing a brunette at the annual music festival

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4 d. ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes?

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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4 d. ago I learned about slavery from Hollywood. Why is French cinema so slow to depict our own colonial crimes? | Rokhaya Diallo

A biopic of Frantz Fanon and other remarkable new movies are finding success via social media, yet remain invisible at the big film festivalsFrance’s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade was historically among the most significant in Europe. After Britain, France had the second biggest colonial empire. We know that 1.38 million people were deported in at least 4,220 documented French slave trade expeditions. Yet the stories of the lives of those people are almost entirely absent from the French collective imagination.Growing up in France, the only images of this crime against humanity I ever saw on screen were in US-made films. I learned about it from the 1970s TV series Roots and from Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad. Today in France, Hollywood films such as 12 Years a Slave or Django Unchained are still the references when it comes to depicting the horrors experienced by enslaved people.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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4 d. ago London Indian Film Festival | Multiple venues | Things to do in London

London Indian Film Festival | Multiple venues | Things to do in London  Time Out

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5 d. ago Edinburgh International Film Festival: 'Pop up' screen at National Gallery to host screenings in August

The newly-reopened Filmhouse will also be a venue for the festival

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5 d. ago Friend murders Bengaluru lecturer after cheating him of Rs 15 lakh over ‘London job’ promise

Friend murders Bengaluru lecturer after cheating him of Rs 15 lakh over ‘London job’ promise  The Indian Express

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5 d. ago Jamaica’s film industry gets boost from government funding and co

Black River film festival invited US, European and African producers and directors to explore partnerships with local film-makersA film festival has brought US, European and African producers and directors to Jamaica to explore collaborations with local film-makers, who are set to benefit from several million US dollars-worth of government investment to boost the domestic industry.Held on a beach in Black River, in Jamaica’s south-western parish of St Elizabeth, the Black River film festival over the weekend gave Jamaican actors and film-makers a rare opportunity to screen their films to experienced movie makers such as the Netflix producer and director Samad Davis, the Atlanta-based executive movie producer Dolapo Erinkitola, and Cédric Pierre-Louis, the programming director of Nollywood TV, ROK and Zacu TV (Canal+). Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Jamaica’s film industry gets boost from new funds and global collaborations

Black River film festival brings together US, European and African producers and directors to explore partnerships with local film-makersA film festival has brought US, European and African producers and directors to Jamaica to explore collaborations with local film-makers, who are set to benefit from several million US dollars-worth of government investment to boost the domestic industry.Held on a beach in Black River, in Jamaica’s south-western parish of St Elizabeth, the Black River film festival over the weekend gave Jamaican actors and film-makers a rare opportunity to screen their films to experienced movie makers such as the Netflix producer and director Samad Davis, the Atlanta-based executive movie producer Dolapo Erinkitola, and Cédric Pierre-Louis, the programming director of Nollywood TV, ROK and Zacu TV (Canal+). Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Peter Brook’s restored ‘Mahabharata’ to premiere at London Indian Film Festival 2025

Peter Brook’s restored ‘Mahabharata’ to premiere at London Indian Film Festival 2025 - Hindustan Times  Hindustan Times

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9 d. ago Windrush Film Festival returns to reclaim stories lost to Britain’s history books

With Windrush Day last Sunday, The Mirror spoke to a Film Festival that honours the Caribbean people who helped rebuild Britain.

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9 d. ago Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges review – ‘I miss his love. Oh god, I loved him so much’

In this deeply moving and cathartic film, the presenter confronts his father’s death by going on a holy pilgrimage and ends up releasing his soul in the sacred river. BeautifulThree years ago Amol Rajan’s father died unexpectedly of pneumonia. Ever since, as the BBC journalist and broadcaster puts it at the start of Amol Rajan Goes to the Ganges, “I’ve been in a bit of a funk.” I get it. As a fellow second-generation kid of Indian immigrants (and journalist from southwest London to boot) I, too, have been in a funk since my mother died (two years before Rajan’s father, at the same age, 76, as him). In Rajan’s case, his grief plunges him into a search for belonging and an attempt to reconnect with his Hindu roots. Where might such a quest take him? To the largest gathering of humanity on earth. The Kumbh Mela, where over 45 days at the start of this year half a billion Hindus gathered on the sacred banks of the Ganges. The question Rajan poses, and it’s a pertinent one for many, is w...

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9 d. ago 2025 Wimbledon Preview: Indian Wells Standouts Lead The Charge In London

2025 Wimbledon Preview: Indian Wells Standouts Lead The Charge In London  BNP Paribas Open | Indian Wells

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1 week ago Murder to merchandise: The grim reality behind London’s Jack the Ripper tourism

Murder to merchandise: The grim reality behind London’s Jack the Ripper tourism  The Indian Express

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1 week ago Crystal Palace International Film Festival at risk, says founder

Crystal Palace International Film Festival at risk, says founder  BBC

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2 w. ago Man left sweating on pavement after trying London’s ‘hottest curry’ as Indian owner rushes with mango lassi | Trending

Man left sweating on pavement after trying London’s ‘hottest curry’ as Indian owner rushes with mango lassi | Trending - Hindustan Times  Hindustan Times

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2 w. ago Janhvi Kapoor and boyfriend Shikhar Pahariya’s romantic London stroll captures hearts. Watch

Janhvi Kapoor and boyfriend Shikhar Pahariya’s romantic London stroll captures hearts. Watch  The Indian Express

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2 w. ago ‘We’re all connected – but it’s not the connection I imagined’: Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2

The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in Mexico from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to spaceHideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Aus...

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