Hollywood hot property Laurence Fishburne is set to 'star' in a major movie festival in Bradford.

The star, who plays the mysterious Morpheus in the blockbuster Matrix movies, will be the subject of a retrospective later this month.

He shares top billing at the Bite the Mango festival with fellow star Jim Carrey and Bollywood legend Anil Kapoor.

The festival, an annual event specialising in international cinema, begins on Friday, June 20.

Mr Kapoor, star of nearly 100 Indian films, will be the festival's principal guest.

The Hollywood stars are not expected to attend, but actor-turned director Fishburne will be honoured with a four-film tribute.

The festival will also screen the new Jim Carrey comedy, Bruce Almighty, a week before its official release.

Carrey plays a complaining TV reporter who is given divine powers for 24 hours by God, in the shape of Morgan Freeman. Jennifer Aniston appears as Carrey's girlfriend.

Bite the Mango, a fixture in Bradford's cultural calendar for nine years, will also highlight the work of the legendary Hindi film-maker V. Shantaram, whose career spanned six decades.

And it will premiere the street-street-smart comedy Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajis, billed as a multi-cultural Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Many of the Anglo-Asian cast will be present.

The week-long event, organised by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, is being staged to coincide with the Bradford Festival. Organisers promise "a fusion of film" from around the world, with shades of Hollywood, Bollywood and Lahore-based Lollywood.

A spokesman said: "Bite the Mango is set to continue as the UK's leading celebration of non-Western cinema.

"This year there will be a special focus on music in films."

The festival will also dust off a few British relics from the museum's TV Heaven collection, with screenings of the BBC's Black and White Minstrel Show and ITV's Love Thy Neighbour.

ITV's 1969 sitcom Curry and Chips, in which Spike Milligan appeared in heavy make-up as an Asian immigrant, will also be shown. The series, written by Till Death Us Do Part creator Johnny Speight, was intended as an anti-racist satire - but the subtlety was lost on many viewers.

Festival screenings will be at the museum's three cinemas and at the Odeon, Thornbury. Full details will appear online at www.bitethemango.org.uk.