Ten-day International Buddhist Film Festival launches at the BarbicanPresented at the Barbican: May 7th - 17th 2009 The International Buddhist Film Festival 2009 London launched at the Barbican last night (Thursday 7 May) with a sell-out gala screening of the extremely rare 1925 silent film Prem Sanyas (The Light of Asia) accompanied by a live orchestra. The event will be repeated on Sunday at 4.30pm in the Barbican's Cinema One. The gala event launched the ten-day festival, which will celebrat...

The International Buddhist Film Festival will encourage Londoners to consider a whole new interpretation of the famous phrase ‘Mind the Gap’ this May.The festival takes place at the Barbican and will introduce the British public to Buddhist ideas, including that of the spiritual belief Bardo, through unexpected and inspiring feature films.The bardo is the Tibetan Buddhist concept which suggests there is an intermediate or transitional state, or 'gap,' between this life and the next. A number...

Buddhist Film Festival 2009: A new world perspective on Buddhist ideas and inspiration Presented at the Barbican: May 7th to 17th The International Buddhist Film Festival is coming to London to offer the United Kingdom a fresh perspective on world cinema with a Buddhist touch. It will celebrate Buddhist ideas and inspiration represented in all film, from Eastern documentaries to Hollywood blockbusters; showing more than 40 films from 18 countries including 27 UK premieres.   The I...

First San Francisco Bay Area Festival: 28 January-13 February 2005Three Cities, Seventeen Days, Fifty Events.Rare Tornatore Work Starring Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu One of Fifteen Premieres; David O. Russell's Huckabees Infomercial Debuts; Films from Twelve Countries.After sold-out events in Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C., the International Buddhist Film Festival (IBFF) will present its first San Francisco Bay Area festival January 28, 2005 through February 13, 2005. Over fi...