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3 Indian Films Lineup at the BFI London Film Festival
Not One, Three Indian Films are going to see the attendees Of British Film Institute (BFI) London Film festival. The listed films are Hansal Mehta’s “Aligarh”, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s “The New Classmate”and Bhaskar Hazarika’s “Kothanodi”.
Prior to the BFI film Festival, The films like Aligarh and Kothanodi already completed its premiering at the Busan International Film Festival.
This was the first Time; the Ad-Filmmaker-Turned-to-Feature-filmmaker Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, directed a feature length film. A Few days back, the film had its premiering at the Silk Road International Film Festival and Swara Bhaskar, a lead role character of the film won best actress in that event.
The Filmmaker Bhaskar Hazarika made his film ‘Kothanodi’ within a Limited budget, which he collected through a crowdfunding campaign.
Themes
Aligarh’ tells a story of a professor who have a homophobic character, ‘The New Classmate’ is all about the mother-daughter relationship story while, ‘Kothanodi’ unfolds a supernatural theme.
The Location
Hansal’s Aligarh scheduled its screenings on 17th and 18th October at the ICA Cinema and BFI Southbank-NFT2. Ashwiny’s The New Classmate will have its screenings on 11th and 14th October, at the Cineworld Haymarket and Cine Lumiere and Bhaskar’s Kothanodi will be screened on 18th and 19th October at the ICA Cinema and BFI Southbank, NFT2.
BFI Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is UK’s largest Film Festival Event that was organized by the British Film Institute. Every year, the festival has receiving more than 3,000 entries from the global filmmakers for premiering in the competition and non-competition sections. This is the 58th year, they run this film festival.
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