The UK & Europe’s largest South Asian film festival is kicking off the series of films and marking LGBT+ History Month, Evening Shadows is a tender heart-warming story. Set in a small town in Southern India, where a young man comes out to his mother and the upheaval it causes with the traditional family and society around it. The sensitively handled film, directed by award winning Indian filmmaker and gay activist Sridhar Rangayan, underlines the challenges gay men continue to face in India to come out to their family, as well as question the dominant patriarchal social mores. The film has won 24 international Awards and has become a success on the international film festival circuit with selection in 72 international film festivals.
As an exclusive added extra, film critic Ashanti Omkar talks to Director Sridhar Rangayan and lead actors Mona Ambegaonkar and Devansh Doshi, who play mother and son in the film, talking about their roles and the LGBTQ+ issues in the film in modern India.
LIFF has carefully curated masterclasses and Q&As, that audiences can indulge in, as it gets up close and personal with the likes of the late and legendary Irrfan Khan speaking to British Asian filmmaker and award winning Director, Asif Kapadia, Padma Shri award winning director Mani Ratnam speaking with documentary and film maker Peter Webber and Tannishtha Chatterjee, actress and director who recently made Rat–A–Tat, as part of Unpaused, an anthology of films made in Lockdown.
A series of upbeat movies, online on the last Sunday of each month, ahead of the June festival in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and online at www.loveliffathome.com
