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25 June – 5 July 2020
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Due to unforeseen technical difficulties tonight’s screening of Pareeksha has been postponed. We apologise for any disappointment
Welcome to LIFF’s Online Festival
The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival and Birmingham Indian Film Festival have joined forces to offer an online festival, LOVE LIFF AT HOME, a unique showcase of films and “In Conversation” interviews by leading South Asian talent from 25 June to the 5th July.
The festival will be FREE to Watch on WWW.LOVELIFFATHOME.COM. Some films are strictly time limited showings. Feature films will only be available in the UK. Exclusive interviews will be viewable world-wide.
A Cinematic Window into a Billion Lives
FEATURE FILMS
One Crazy Thing Directed is a comedy romance about a guy and a girl – only he’s hiding a secret. He’s a ‘sex tape’ internet sensation. Expect lots of laughter.
‘IN CONVERSATION’
The festival will open with Ayushmann Khuranna talking candidly about his rapid rise to fame from Vicky Donor to his latest hits includingArticle 15 which world premiered at LIFF last year.Acclaimed character actor Adil Hussain will give rare insights into his craft and Canadian director Deepa Mehta (Fire, Earth, Water) will talk about her career.
The festival will close with Hollywood star Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire, Love Sonia) talking about her career.
SHORT FILM COMPETITION
LIFF presents the prestigious annual Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition in association with the Bagri Foundation. The short film programme is a celebration of new filmmaking talent that explores themes of South Asian experience. Many previous winners of this award have successfully developed their careers and moved into making feature films. This year’s competition consists of 8 films. Find more information below.
CLASSICS
Watch classics such as Kerala stalwart, Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s BFI Sutherland Trophy winner Elippathayam (The Rat Trap), Bengali master, Buddhadeb Das Gupta’s epic award-winning tale Uttara (The Wrestlers) through to the visually ravishing widescreen vista of Sturla Gunnerson’s documentary Monsoon.
Festival Schedule
Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition
The Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition showcases the best of South Asian and Diaspora cinema from emerging filmmakers. This year’s competition consists of 8 films from countries including India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The programme this year includes the UK premieres of TIFF hit ‘Darling’ in which a dreamy trans girl vies for the spotlight at an erotic dance theatre in Lahore, ‘Roqaia’, where a young girl finds herself in the middle of media frenzy after surviving a terrorist attack and ‘Migratory’, which was made during the Covid-19 lockdown. Other films in the short programme are The Song We Sang, Mizaru, Sunday, At Home But Not at Home and Khidki (Window).
WATCH ONLY ON LOVELIFFATHOME.COM, 25 JUNE – 5 JULY
Please help us support India’s lowest paid film workers
In this difficult time, we are mindful of the impact of production shutting down in India and are working with the Producers Guild of India to support their Relief Fund initiative for daily wage workers. Please help us support these workers. Any donation, no matter how small will make a difference. Thank you.
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Welcome to LIFF 2020
Here’s some words from our Festival Director…
We hope that you and your loved ones are well and safe during these challenging times. The LIFF team are thinking of you and the many friends that have made this festival a success over the last 10 years. We are the Punk Rock of Indian film festivals, and we continue to push the boundaries by showing cutting edge great cinema in a diversity of South Asian languages. On our 11th year, I’m delighted to welcome you back to LIFF, both online and at our actual festival events planned for the Autumn.
Cary Rajinder Sawhney MBE, Executive & Programming Director of LIFF
LOVE LIFF AT HOME
We are delighted to launch LOVE LIFF AT HOME, where we will stream this years online festival and build a collection of Independent Indian Cinema from around the world. To kick things off, we are showcasing all the Satyajit Ray Short Film award winners.
U Ushacha (2019 Winner)
Year: 2019 | Country: India
Director: Rohan Kanwade| Run time: 21 mins
Language: Marathi with English Subtitles
Usha, a single mother who works as a farm labourer, feels drawn to a female teacher of the local primary school in ways she never thought possible, The attraction inspires her to learn to read and write, one day hoping to be as good as her teacher.
The Peanut Seller (2018 Winner)
Year: 2017 | Country: India/Germany
Director: Etienne Sievers | Run time: 19 mins
Language: Hindi with English Subtitles
An orphaned young ragpicker battling isolation and poverty in the streets of New Delhi tries to locate the one man capable of helping him find his mother
Papa (2017 Winner)
Year: 2015 | Country: India
Director: Siddarth Chauhan | Run time: 15 mins
Language: Hindi with English Subtitles
A paralysed mother, Sushma and her young son, Rajiv are learning to adjust with their new life after an accident leaves their lives changed forever, Sushma’s only hope is a pigeon, which she found in her house on the day her husband died.
Mochi (The Cobbler) (2016 Winner)
Year: 2016 | Country: India
Director: Saqib Pandon | Run time: 20 mins
Language: Hindi, Marathi with English Subtitles
Gopal, a Mumbai cobbler at a railway station, struggles to make ends meet in his minimum wage job. With a growing son, it takes a fine balance to manage the family finances. It just takes on careless mistake.
Khargosh (The Rabbit) (2015 Winner)
Year: 2015 | Country: India
Director: Sudarshan Suresh | Run time: 14 mins
Language: Bengali with English Subtitles
A debt ridden farmer struggles to keep afloat amidst mounting pressure from his money lenders. When his young daughter decides to adopt a stray rabbit, the relationship between father and daughter is put to the test.
Kush (2014 Winner)
Year: 2013 | Country: India
Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani | Run time: 20 mins
Language: Hindi with English Subtitles
In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination by her two Sikh bodyguards, a school teacher travelling back from a field trip with her class struggles to protect Kush, the only Sikh student in the class, from the growing violence around him.
Kaun Kamleshwar (2013 Winner)
Year: 2012 | Country: India
Director: Anurag Goswami | Run time: 19 mins
Language: Hindi with English Subtitles
Brothers Madhav and Raghu travel back to their village with a clear mission – to find Kamleshwar and put an end to their troubles. Fate, however, takes an unexpected turn….
Shor (2012 Winner)
Year: 2011 | Country: India
Director: Neeraj Ghaywan | Run time: 17 mins
Language: Hindi with English Subtitles
Barely surviving in the seedy ghettos of Mumbai, Lallam and Meena find each other while embracing death, divorce and redemption.
Amar (2011 Winner)
Year: 2011 | Country: India
Director: Andrew Hinton | Run time: 10 mins
Language: English
All great achievements require time. Amar is 14 and top of his class. Someday he’d like to be a professional cricket but for now he’s the family’s main breadwinner. An observational documentary which leads us through Amar’s daily routine.
Help us support India’s lowest paid film workers…
In this difficult time, we are mindful of the impact of production shutting down in India and are working with the Producers Guild of India to support their Relief Fund initiative for daily wage workers. Please help us support these workers. Any donation, no matter how small will make a difference. Thank you.
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