Projects matching: Beeban Kidron

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Based on the award-winning book ‘Scala Cinema 1978-1993’ by Jane Giles (FAB Press, 2018) this feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll rep house which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years. The film combines 50 new interviews with diverse audience members who went on to become filmmakers, musicians, writers, actors and artists, combined with previously unseen archive material and iconic movie clips. With its universal themes of youthful discovery and the underdog vs. the establishment, this is no nostalgia trip but rather a film of universal relevance with clear parallels between then and now. Above all, it's a hilarious and joyous celebration of cinema-going. Official Selection Il Cinema Ritrovato Bologna 2023 - World premiere Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023

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The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful figure at court, becoming the queen's teacher or Munshi, and instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death of John Brown, her Scottish ghillie, the queen had at last found a replacement. But her intense and controversial relationship with the Munshi led to a near revolt in the royal household. A tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen, a relationship that survived the best attempts to destroy it. Based on the book 'Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closet Confidant' by Shrabani Basu. Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2017 - Special Presentations

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In the documentary Streetkids United II - The Girls From Rio a Brazilian girls football team is followed as they prepare themselves for the tournament that will change their lives forever, the Street Child World Cup. In the midst of police and drug gangs confrontations the Favela Street Girls strive to keep their dreams alive.

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In a short span of time, our lives have been transformed by mobile phones and internet technologies - what does this mean, particularly for a generation who’s never known anything else? Beeban Kidron’s timely and insightful documentary encourages us to think critically about our adoption of technology.

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In Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, we find Bridget (Renee Zellweger) where we left her - in the arms of gorgeous human rights lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). But what happens after the happy ending?

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Epic, elemental, passionate and tragic, Swept From The Sea is a romantic tale that pitches the mortality of man against the immortality of nature. To the world, Amy Foster is a girl who never smiles, but beneath her passive exterior, there is hidden passion. Amy is a pagan spirit, a collector of gifts from the sea. Her world is irrevocably changed when the sea delivers the most beautiful and most impossible of gifts. Yanko Gooral is an adventurer who has left his Ukrainian homeland in search of a new world - America. When Yanko is washed overboard by a murderous tempest he finds himself a stranger in hostile land. When he crosses the threshold into Amy's world, however, they form a bond too powerful to be broken by the hate and suspicion the ignorant masses of Cornwall rain down on them. Based on the short story by Joseph Conrad, Swept From The Sea tells a powerful and vital story about the transformative power of love and the resiliency of the human heart.