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Five sessions of the international conference on Saturday and Sunday will be broadcast. Speakers are expected to include President Russell M. Nelson.

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‘The Beatles and India’ documentary reveals a bitter experience with a guru that changed them in unexpected ways

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About 60 films, features and documentaries were showcased at the festival that featured cinema from India and the Indian Diaspora

The doc is packed with unseen footage and follows the Fab Four as they visit India in 1968 and stay at a Himalayan ashram. Its US release on Blu-ray/DVD is confirmed for 21 June

Includes seasons celebrating women documentary filmmakers, Danish silent star Asta Nielsen and female coming-of-age films.

A documentary film festival running through to March at the Kumu Art Museum (Kumu kunstimuuseum) in Tallinn will kick-off with a new take on the Beatles' legendary 1968 trip to India. The Estonian premiere will be introduced by veteran singer and fab four fan Ivo Linna, while anyone searching for an anti-dote to hippiedom might want to catch a biopic of X-Ray Spex singer Poly Styrene, also seeing its premiere, later on in the festival.

The USP of the film is that it offers an Indian perspective on events and anecdotes that are familiar to Beatlemaniacs around the globe.