Peepli [Live] - Sunday 6th February 5pm

We're looking forward to one more film before the Festival and on Sunday Peepli [Live] should appeal to hearts and minds equally. One of the central themes - Indian farmers' suicides - won't immediately seem an antidote to the sad lives depicted in the last two Sundays' films but, though tragic, it is an amusing part of a Catch-22 situation satirised by Anusha Rizvi in her debut feature. For example, Boxoffice Magazine tells us: 'The juxtaposition of the tragedy and the lunacy of the circumstances are not completely disparate; satire is an appropriate weapon here, but it's the drama in Peepli Live that truly resonates.' And Moving Pictures Magazine: 'Its comical, sharply observant caricatures of India's political and media jackals offers a much-needed reality check in a country where celluloid escapism is too often the rule.' And finally Empire speaks of 'a highly-assured debut by Rizvi' and The Guardian 'a satirical gem'. Sounds intriguing...?