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During the recent years, there has been an increase on the Asian films that deal with the Lgbt community, with productions like “Wolf and Wolbachia“, “Small Talk” and a number of others. Montreal-based Eisha Marjara makes her own effort on the subject, through a rather cheerful approach.

“Venus” runs as part of the 9th edition of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, that runs at 15 cinemas, across London, Birmingham and Manchester, from 21st June to 1st July, with 27 films, including features and short films, in competition. It is the largest South Asian film festival in Europe. Buy your tickets via this website, at respective cinema box offices: http://londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/

Sid is a Montreal Punjabi, who, after years of struggling with his gender identity, has decided to come out as a woman, to the shock of his traditional Punjabi mother, who cannot fathom the fact, in contrary to his father,...

Veteran film-maker Parry hangs out with a tribe of hunter-gatherers and seeks wisdom with Indian gurus in a well-meaning but woolly documentary

‘Our desire for goods is at the heart of this’: Why Bruce Parry wants us all to live more sustainably

British film-maker Bruce Parry worked for many years making ethnographic documentaries for the BBC (Tribe, Amazon, Arctic) about extreme environments and the indigenous people who lived in them. Now having struck on his own, he’s made this well-meaning but rather woolly doc, co-directed by Mark Ellam, about Parry’s quest to understand … well, it’s not really clear.

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"Where we're going we don't need roads," photographer-turned-fruit geek Ken Love tells fellow geek Bill Pullman as they crash through Hawaiian brush in search of the exotic. But their vehicle is no match for the vegetation, so they must make their way on foot to thrash through with machetes. Of all the metaphors this film tries on for size, this, the need for a clear road, may be the most apt. Still, amid many haphazard details and much talk of obsession, the lush work by cinematographer Mark Ellam is something of a guide, sensuous and outstanding, his macro lens showing the very female wonder of fruit. We are animals whose ovaries are deeply hidden. But fruit! Announced in the most garish of ways by flowers, fruit are literally the ovaries of the plants and trees that bear them. This s...