‘La Haine’ screening with live soundtrack performance by Asian Dub Foundation announced for 30th anniversary

A special screening of La Haine has been announced with a live score to be performed by Asian Dub Foundation.

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The acclaimed French film will be celebrating its 30th anniversary next year and to mark the occasion, a one-off screening of the movie will be held at London’s Southbank Centre, with Asian Dub Foundation performing their reworked version of the film’s score.

The event is presented by the Southbank Centre and BFI and will take place at the Royal Festival Hall on January 19 – you can find any remaining tickets here.

Asian Dub Foundation – whose members Steve Chandra Savale, Jamil Jammaz Ahmed and Brian Fairbairn will play live at the screening – have performed La Haine live before, notably at the Barbican in 2001 as part of the Only Connect Festival, and were invited to Meltdown Festival the following year, as curated by David Bowie.

La Haine stars Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) as a young Jewish man, Hubert Koundé as a Black boxer, and Saïd Taghmaoui as a young Arab man – three friends on the outskirts of Paris in an immigrant community who live one day in the aftermath of riots triggered by a police attack.

Director Mathieu Kassovitz won the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 for the film, at the age of 27.

The eclectic Hackney-based band Asian Dub Foundation have been blending musical genres from rock to hip-hop to ragga to South Asian music since they formed in 1993. They have released nine studio albums to date, most recently 2020’s ‘Access Denied’.

The band also were at the centre of a campaign to get to Number One in the UK on the day that the country officially left the European Union. They sampled words from comedian Stewart Lee’s standup routine about former UKIP leader Paul Nuttall on the track ‘Comin’ Over Here’. Their campaign to be Brexit Number One was ultimately unsuccessful, although they did top the UK Singles Sales Chart.

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