The festival’s annual Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition and Award is a rare chance to see the works of talented, emerging filmmakers, who are exploring themes of South Asian Experience. The winner o...

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• Fri 21 Jun
• 120 minutes

European Premiere. Seven Bangladeshi filmmakers come together to present a series of short stories as a love-letter to their beloved city of Dhaka. A background actor who’ll do anything to be a sta...

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• Thu 27 Jun
• 90 minutes

UK Premiere. Winner of two jury awards at Moscow International Film Festival Bangladeshi auteur Mostofa Sarwar Farooki (No Bed Of Roses) returns with this tense thriller shot in a single take wher...

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• Thu 27 Jun
• 85 minutes

International Premiere. This inspirational documentary will have you in tears and every Indian glowing with pride. The film essentially uncovers one little-known story of unimaginable humanity, ge...

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• Fri 28 Jun
• 45 minutes

UK Premiere. The Lift Boy is a heart-warming entertainer that will leave you smiling from ear to ear. When his father falls ill, 24 year-old lay-about Raju is forced to take up his dad’s job as a l...

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• Fri 28 Jun
• 105 minutes

This screening is co-presented with our partners, Year Here , as part of the Social Action Cinema series, and will conclude with a specialist panel discussion with Director, Nick Cohen, on the film an...

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• Tue 2 Jul
• 116 minutes

From the team behind the worldwide success The Beatles: Eight Days a Week comes two-time Academy Award® winning director Ron Howard's documentary celebrating the life of the beloved opera star Luciano...

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• Sat 13 Jul
• 170 minutes

Hello, Whitechapel... we're listening. To commemorate 15 long years since the gut-wrenching final episode of Frasier was aired, The Doctors Crane are taking over Bar Paragon to celebrate Seattle’s ...

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• Tue 23 Jul
• 120 minutes

The UK’s first film festival dedicated to Boxing - The Sweet Science The line-up is fantastic with classic films being screened including Jawbone, Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, Fat City, Fighte...

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• Sat 2 Nov to Sun 3 Nov
• 600 minutes