Events archive

28.02.2009 The annual Tongues on Fire Asian Film Festival is back, 6-15 March, London.

26.02.2009 Hordes of poverty and green campaigners from groups representing hundreds of thousands of people will join the largest British event to confront the global economic crisis at a free, all-day event on Saturday.

24.02.2009 Greenwash is a political farce, complete with custard pie and didactic dialogue, reports Daniel Nelson.

23.02.2009 The next Human Rights Watch film festival (19-27 March) will be the thirteenth, so it is not surprising that the festival’s deputy director, Andrea Holley, is looking for new styles, “which we need if we are to pull in new people”.

22.02.2009 With Afghanistan set to be a key focus of British, European and US foreign policy for many years, the Tricycle Theatre is staging a festival of plays, exhibitions, films and discussions on the country.

17.02.2009 Young filmmakers from Canada, Senegal, South Africa, the UK, and the United States tackle child labour, women’s and indigenous rights, and persecution of immigrant communities in a special section of this year's Human Rights Watch film festival.

11.02.2009 The shocking, hidden lives of refused asylum seekers whose bids for sanctuary have been rejected by the government are revealed for the first time in a photo exhibition in London.

11.02.2009 Greenwash is an up-to-the minute comedy about public and private deception, about sex, lies and climate change.

10.02.2009 Afghanistan, Burma, Ecuador, Gujarat, India, Kashmir, Lebanon, Liberia, Palestine, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan: all are featured in this year's Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.

08.02.2009 This year's "Bird's Eye Film Festival" features an evening celebrating women in Afghanistan with the UK premieres of these short documentaries made by young women.