Indian Film Festival in LA in April

April is usually a pretty warm month in Los Angeles. It’s a perfect month to check out some movies! And the great thing about LA is that it offers variety. In April, while sitting in the cinema and lazily staring at a screen you’ll get a chance to practice your understanding of Japanese, discover the streets of Warsaw, and sing along to Bollywood songs and more!



Indian Film Festival

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles will take place from April 21-26 at the Arclight. Its goal is to showcase “films from or about India made by Indian and international filmmakers.” Similar to the Japan Film Festival in LA, its mission is to promote a greater appreciation of Indian culture and cinema. Indian culture and its cinema has been greatly appreciated last year, with its pinnacle at the 2008 Oscars where “Slumdog Millionaire” received 8 golden statuettes. And this festival will celebrate the career of Anil Kapoor who played the host of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” in Danny Boyle’s film. One of the films are the festival is “Virasat” in which Anil Kapoor plays the lead role (and I’m sure he’ll attend the festival). To watch a film at this festival will cost $12 for the general public and $9.75 for Seniors and Students.


Three other Film Festivals will also be organized as a part of the April Show, These are Beverly Hills Film Festival, Japan Film Festival and Polish Film Festival.

The 10th annual Beverly Hills Film Festival will take place from April 1-5 at the Clarity theatre’s dedicated to independent filmmakers and will include some premiere of indie films.

The 2nd annual Japan Film Festival in Los Angeles takes place from April 10-16 at the Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex and from April 17-19 at the Downtown Independent. Japan Film Festival–Los Angeles, JFFLA, was started to help promote Japanese films and Japanese filmmakers. It’s also dedicated to delivering a better understanding and appreciation of contemporary Japanese culture. They will screen films that already premiered in Japan and that were made between 2007 and 2009. A movie that looks really interesting is "Funuke, Show Some Love, You Losers!"

The 10th Annual Polish Film Festival in Los Angeles will take place from April 22 - May 3 at the Laemmle's Sunset 5. This festival will present the best Polish films from 2008 followed by Q&As with the filmmakers and cast. It’s a great place to meet Polish filmmakers (if you want to!) or Polish people working in Hollywood. The program of the festival is not online yet but I hope that they’ll show “Hania” a film directed and shot by the great cinemtographer Janusz Kaminiski.