Passionate about gaming?

We are pleased to announce our Manchester Autumn Festival, which will run from 26th September to 5th October. We will showcase the best of new Indian and South Asian GAMING as well as archival shorts.

Last year’s massive FORMAT gaming and nightlife event attracted over 2,500 attendees. This year’s South Asian Gaming Zone will be at Camp And Furnace in Liverpool, and looks to be a considerably larger event. We hope to see you there! We’re so proud to be not only providing Indian developers an opportunity to exhibit their games in the United Kingdom for the first time, but also to give our community the chance to play games never seen outside of India before exclusively at FORMAT in Liverpool on Thursday 26th September.

We will also have a Format Game Developers Lecture, a Video Gaming tournament and Our archival programme, entitled I’m British But… inspired by the pioneering documentary of legendary British filmmaker Gurinder Chadha.

Supported by BFI Audience Fund.

Click here for the full Manchester Programme

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That’s a wrap on BIFF 2024

It was great to showcasing the best of new Indian and South Asian cinema, web series, emerging filmmakers’ shorts and exciting forays into XR and computer games. We would like to say a huge thank you to the whole team and all of our partners for making this happen and to you our audience, for standing by us and continuing to support our endeavours to make diverse independent cinema accessible. We look forward to seeing you next year.

2024 Award Winners

The presentation of our annual Awards are seen by the film industry as a recognition of their art by the British Asian film loving community.

BFI Player

The London Indian Film festival has its own dedicated Collection on the British Film Institute’s BFI Player. The BFI Player presents the best global cinema on-demand: from classic and contemporary films to the best of the BFI National Archive.

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LIFF Collection on BFI Player (RENT)

LIFF Collection on BFI Player (FREE)

Great British Asians Collection (FREE)

Great British Asians Collection (RENT)

Too Desi Too Queer: A selection of LGBTQI+ shorts (FREE)