New Brit Asian Shorts

Director: Various
Run time: 90 mins | Recommended Certificate: 15
Language: English | Year: 2024 | Country: UK

The Birmingham Indian Film Festival is delighted to bring to audiences a selection of brilliant short films from exciting and emerging filmmakers from the UK. From award-winning dramas to insightful documentaries, we’re showcasing a rarely presented slice of life of Asian Britain today.

Expect a dynamic discussion with young filmmakers on stage

New Brit-Asian Shorts Programme

Where we came from
Dir: Nick Virk | 15 mins | English
A British Asian UK Conservative government minister’s internalised racism rises to the surface as she defends racist fascist policies as British values. Has she forgotten her heritage in exchange for power?

The Visit
Dir: Parmjit Gill | 11 mins | English
A mysterious woman watches a mother and her young daughter’s easy companionship, but there’s something out of time and place about her presence.

Pink and Blue
Dir: Shezah Salam | 9 mins | English
A surprise gender reveal party, brings tensions between three sisters as pregnant Manps is determined to break the family’s infamous ‘Aujla Curse of the Girls.’

In The wake of remembering
Dir: Sara Saini | 19 mins | English, Punjabi
Three women reflect on their memories of supporting the Burnsall Strike, a 1992 workers’ resistance movement in Birmingham that was led by Punjabi women.

Bunnyhood
Dir: Mansi Maheshwari | 10 mins | English
Mum would never lie to me, would she? Innocent Bobby discovers the answer to this question when she is surprised by a last-minute trip to the hospital.

There will come soft rain
Dir: Elham Ehsas | 15 mins | English, Urdu
Haunted by rising sea levels, a daughter digs up her father’s grave to move his body to higher ground.

MidRiff
Dir: Neeraja Raj | 7 mins | English
A surreal comedy set in London, where a romantic make-out sesh is rudely interrupted by an unexpected musical guest… from within.

Before I do
Dir: Gitika Butto | 11 mins | English
On the morning of her wedding day, Mona, a British-Indian woman, questions her rushed marriage and reflects on a period of self-discovery from her past.

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