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Rule Breakers review – rousingly feelgood real life story of Afghan girls’ robotics team
This story of emancipated young women escaping draconian social strictures brims with enthusiasm and features …
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Film festival in New York cancelled after China puts pressure on directors
Participants ask for their films not to be shown at IndieChina event, which was due to launch this weekendAn i…
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Writing Hawa review – Afghan woman fights for freedom as the Taliban close in
Najiba Noori’s thought-provoking documentary follows her mother, finally getting her chance at autonomy just a…
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Under the Open Sky review – absorbing portrait of a threatened way of life
Intimate, unhurried documentary follows a family of camel herders on the plains of western IndiaThe title of S…
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Horror film digitally altered in China to make gay couple straight
Viewers outraged after same-sex wedding scene changed in Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison BrieAn Aust…
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Homebound review – emotionally rich study of friends in rural India trying to get home in the pandemic
Neeraj Ghaywan’s film benefits from excellent lead performances, strong cinematography and an apparent mentors…
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The Glassworker review – beautiful Ghibli-esque anti-war fable
Pakistani animator Usman Riaz’s dazzling debut owes much to Hayao Miyazaki, founder of Japan’s legendary studi…
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Little Jaffna review – undercover cop thriller goes deep into French-Tamil gangland
Lawrence Valin directs and stars in this Paris-set drama, where a young man caught between cultures infiltrate…
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Aamir Khan: India’s movie legend on a cut-price mission to save Bollywood
The superstar actor will release his latest film on YouTube so families who cannot afford cinema trips can wat…
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Indian film company to rerelease romantic drama with AI ‘happy ending’
Director ‘heartbroken’ after 2013 film about doomed romance between Hindu man and Muslim woman altered without…
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Diljit Dosanjh is one of the biggest Asian stars in the world. So why can’t Indian cinemagoers see his latest film?
Sardaar Ji 3 is breaking box office records despite not being released to its most famous actor’s home audienc…
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Indian film board criticised for cutting ‘overly sensual’ Superman kisses
Viewers complain that board allows violence and misogyny in Indian films but not a smooch in a Hollywood relea…
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Malala and Kiran faced violence, threats and shame. Now their fathers want ‘all men to stand with women’
Ziauddin Yousafzai and Ranjit appear in a new film in which they discuss fatherhood, courage, gender justice a…
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‘Once-in-a-generation artist’ Arijit Singh to be first Indian musician to headline UK stadium
Bengali singer who has more Spotify followers than Taylor Swift to bring ‘sheer power’ to same London stage as…
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Paris-based thriller offers fresh inside take on French-Tamil community
Writer, actor and director Lawrence Valin says that in Little Jaffna he wanted to ‘show new role models’It has…