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The outstanding London Indian Film Festival is back! Now in its 12th edition, LIFF is springing forward with some very special screenings all leading up to the Summer film festival in June!
LIFF, which is the UK & Europe’s largest South Asian film festival, will begin with a series of upbeat movies, online on the last Sunday of each month at www.loveliffathome.com along with much more.
Cary Rajinder Sawhney MBE, Executive & Programming Director of LIFF says,
“After a challenging few months we are bringing some much needed uplifting entertainment and as always our quality films offer fresh views of India and South Asia; movies that may even challenge and certainly leave you thinking.”
Hippodrome, Bo ness.
The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival at the renowned Hippodrome Cinema in Bo’ness is organised by Falkirk Community Trust with key funding and support from Falkirk Council, Screen Scotland, Film Hub Scotland (BFI Film Audience Network) and Visit Falkirk. Go to www.hippfest.co.uk.
The festival features Marlene Dietrich’s ‘The Woman Men Yearn For’ as part of a new musical collaboration with the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival with all screening materials courtesy of Murnau Stiftung, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
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“Kicking off with the online events that feature guests such as Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, and then bringing hugely diverse screenings out of cinemas and into communities means we can reach out to everyone as there’s sure to be something they will enjoy.”
When the first lockdown was announced back in March 2020, the team behind Cambridge Film Festival feared the 40th edition of CFF would not go ahead.
They immediately got to work to save the festival and to ensure that film lovers would continue to have access to movies that were not available via other platforms.
First came a partnership with three other UK film Festivals to produce AMPLIFY!, a virtual film festival that ran throughout November 2020 and attracted an audience of over 15,000, not just from Cambridgeshire but across the UK.