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Antonio Aakeel heads home for Eaten By Lions premiere at Birmingham Indian Film Festival
Staff Reporter
June 25, 2018
We started the year with highlighting ten of the city's rising stars for 2018, and featured prominently on the list was Wolverhampton-born actor Antonio Aakeel. The promising young talent from Wolves – now…
REVIEW: Love Sonia
Ranjit Dhillon
June 24, 2018
Love Sonia is a hard-hitting, harrowing film that succinctly highlights the untold story of young girls who are sexually trafficked internationally and their journey from innocence to desolation. The film follows…
OPINION: My First Birmingham Pride
James Marson
June 23, 2018
The idea of attending Birmingham Pride 2018 was an incredibly daunting one. Although I’m gay, I have never particularly gone out of my way to broadcast it to the world.…
50 photos from the Birmingham Indian Film Festival launch
Staff Reporter
June 23, 2018
The Birmingham Indian Film Festival (BIFF) launched at Cineworld in Broad Street on Friday, initiating ten days of twenty independent South Asian movies across five different venues. Screening special preview films,…
VIDEO: Birmingham Indian Film Festival 2018 | Launch with ‘Love Sonia’
Staff Reporter
June 23, 2018
Ranjit Dhillon reports from the launch of the Birmingham Indian Film Festival at Cineworld Birmingham Broad Street and chats to the cast and crew of new independent film Love Sonia.…
Impressive new ‘Star Wars’ mural unveiled in Birmingham city centre
Rangzeb Hussain
June 22, 2018
A new mural has been unveiled in The Custard Factory to tie in with the opening of the all-new Odeon Luxe cinema at Broadway Plaza in Birmingham. The huge spray painting, under…
Brum’s Gay Symphony Orchestra raise funds for Naz and Matt Foundation
Staff Reporter
June 22, 2018
Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra (BGSO) and an audience of over 150 threw their support behind the LGBT charity, Naz and Matt Foundation last week, as the audience emptied their pockets…
Tickets for a fiver as Stefflon Don announces charity show at Boxxed in Digbeth
Staff Reporter
June 22, 2018
An unmissable show with Stefflon Don has been announced to take place in Birmingham next month, to raise money for an international animal charity. The Brum-born 26-year-old - real name Stephanie Victoria Allen…
5 acts to see at Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul this July
Olly MacNamee
June 22, 2018
Not long now until the first of the three interconnected music festivals of Birmingham's summer schedule. And, with Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul running across the weekend of Friday July 6th - 8th…
Film about Pakistani woman who fought off bandits to be screened in Birmingham
Staff Reporter
June 15, 2018
A film about a brave village woman who fought off bandits in Pakistan is to be shown at a special screening in Birmingham this week. My Pure Land, a 2017…