Mango Dreams will open the festival The Asian Film Festival returns to Edinburgh Filmhouse for a second edition next week. Running from March 24 to 26, the aims to showcase the best in contemporary filmmaking from the continent.
The festival will open with a gala screening of John Upchurch's Mango Dreams, a road movie which sees Muslim rickshaw driver Salim, a Muslim rickshaw driver take an elderly Hindu doctor, an escapee of the British partition of India, for a final trip back to his former home in Pakistan. As the pair share their haunting past with each other, they forge a warm-hearted friendship.
Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award winner /film]Lipstick Under My Burkha/film] will also be among the highlights. The film, which also won Oxfam's inaugural Best Film on Gender Equality Award, is currently being blocked from general release in India after the Central Board of Film Certification refused to certify the.
The festival will open with a gala screening of John Upchurch's Mango Dreams, a road movie which sees Muslim rickshaw driver Salim, a Muslim rickshaw driver take an elderly Hindu doctor, an escapee of the British partition of India, for a final trip back to his former home in Pakistan. As the pair share their haunting past with each other, they forge a warm-hearted friendship.
Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award winner /film]Lipstick Under My Burkha/film] will also be among the highlights. The film, which also won Oxfam's inaugural Best Film on Gender Equality Award, is currently being blocked from general release in India after the Central Board of Film Certification refused to certify the.
- 3/17/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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