The Warrior is a 2001 film by British-Indian

British Asian

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 filmmaker Asif Kapadia

Asif Kapadia

Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker of Indian descent. He directed several award-winning films, including The Sheep Thief , winner of the 2nd Prize Cinéfondation for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, The Warrior , which won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film and Senna , winner of the...

. It stars Bollywood

Bollywood

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 actor Irrfan Khan as Lafcadia, a warrior in feudal Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 who attempts to give up the sword.

The film is in Hindi

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 and was filmed in Rajastahan, India

India

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, but it was produced by companies from the UK, Germany

Germany

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 and France

France

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. At the BAFTA Awards, it won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film. It was also selected as the UK's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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, but was rejected by the Academy on the grounds that the Hindi language is not indigenous to Britain.

Release

Festival screenings include; London, Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Film Festival

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, Rotterdam

International Film Festival Rotterdam

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, Montreal

Montreal World Film Festival

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, Karlovy Vary

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

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, Pusan

Pusan International Film Festival

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, Gothenburg

Gothenburg Film Festival

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, Mumbai

Mumbai International Film Festival

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Kolkata, Boston

Boston Film Festival

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Awards

56th British Academy Film Awards

56th British Academy Film Awards

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• Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film
  BAFTA Award for Best Film
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• The Carl Foreman Award for Special Achievement by a Director, Screenwriter or Producer in their First Feature Film
• Nominated — Film Not in the English Language

2002 Evening Standard British Film Awards#2002 Winners

• Most Promising Newcomer Award

2001 London Film Festival

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• The Sutherland Trophy for the Most Original and Imaginative First Feature.

2001 Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard

• Hitchcock D'or for Best Film

British Independent Film Awards

British Independent Film Awards

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 2001

• The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Film
• Best Technical Achievement Award for Cinematography for Roman Osin
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• Nominated — Best British Independent Film
• Nominated — Best Music for the composer Dario Marianelli
  Dario Marianelli
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European Film Awards 2002

• Nominated — European Discovery Fassbinder Award

London Film Critics Circle Awards 2002

London Film Critics Circle Awards 2002

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• Nominated — British Newcomer of the Year

Carlton Television

Carlton Television

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 Multicultural Achievement Awards 2002

• Film Category

International Film Festival of Guadarrama (Madrid, Spain) 2003

• Jury Prize & Cinearte Prize

San Sebastian Film Festival 2001

• Best Cinematography

Camerimage

Camerimage

The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography CAMERIMAGE is a festival dedicated to cinematography and its creators cinematographers.The first seven events were held in Toruń, Poland. The next ten events were held in Łódź...

 Film Festival (Poland) 2001

• Nominated — Golden Frog for Best Cinematography – Nomination.

Kapadia was awarded the 2002 Fellowship for Film Directing by The Arts Foundation.

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