Part of From Asia to the Brewery Festival, 10th June - 11th July Artist Sumit Sarkar will exhibit a selection of works from his three main strands of work; his Ananta work looks at the Hindu gods and their theology and reimagines them for the modern age taking the form of digital sculptures and animations; Kerst is a series of photographic prints and videos of environmental sculptural tags made f...
Part of the A2B Festival My Beautiful Laundrette (15) UK 1985 Dir. Stephen Frears Screenplay: Hanif Kureishi Starring: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis Omar, son of a Pakistani immigrant, embarks on a venture to renovate his uncle's laundrette with the help of his childhood friend, ex-National Front member Johnny, with whom he develops a gay relationship. Heralded as one of Brita...
Part of the A2B Festival: Bend It Like Beckham (12A) UK 2002 Dir. Gurinder Chadha Starring: Parminder K. Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers Two young girls from West London pursue their goal of playing football in an all women's team, against the wishes of their parents. This was Director’s Gurinder Chadha's second UK feature film, coming eight years after her surprise hit, Bhaji on...
Part of the A2B Festival Bhaji on the Beach (15) UK 1992 Dir. Gurinder Chadha Starring: Kim Vithana, Sarita Khajuria, Lalita Ahmed Gentle comedy about a group of Asian women from Birmingham who set off on a day trip to Blackpool. However it isn't long before the men are in pursuit of their joyriding spouses and girlfriends. Bhaji on the Beach was a surprise commercial and critical hit. It garne...
Part of the A2B Festival: East is East (15) UK 1999 Dir. Damien O'Donnell Starring: Om Puri, Linda Basset, Jordan Routledge Salford, 1971: a proud Pakistani chip shop owner lives with his white wife and seven children in a terraced house. The children rebel against his strict approach and his insistence that they are brought up as Muslims and submit to traditional arranged marriages. Based on a...