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IMPERIAL DREAMS

By | January 2014

2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEXT (<=>) SELECTION! Malik Vitthal’s feature debut has the familiar ring of inner city struggles that we have seen before on screen but does so with confidence and enough starkness to keep us rooting for its protagonist…

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