Tilak, a gentle and reserved gay Nepali man in a rural setting is forced to marry a girl (Urmila, a school-teacher) by his family. How do the couple navigate social pressures (including not being able to produce a child) as well as take care of their needs.
Grace Ridhi turns up to Mr Freeman's house to demand he pay for all the overdue bills he owes the council. Mr Freeman prefers a more spiritual approach to such things.
In reverence to the British paintings that watch over her from inside a desolate stately home, a young Pakistani girl aspires to become the perfect upper-class lady.
A man is summoned from Mumbai to his village to deal with a termite infestation, threatening to destroy his childhood home.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2023 - Short Film Programme - World premiere
Alo, an undocumented overseas Filipino worker, lives in an overcrowded house-share in London. He is struck by a latent neurological problem, which causes a bout of seizures and disrupts his situation in the household. The residents of the house are posed an ultimatum; should they risk Alo’s health or call an ambulance, potentially resulting in his deportation?
World Premiere: BFI London Film Festival 2023
Sundance London 2024
A heated argument occurs when Abdullah declares he is joining the British Military to the shock of his pacifist father Omar and anger of his fundamentalist older brother Moh. As their debate unfurls past resentments and revelations rise to the surface, boiling to a point where they can no longer contain themselves. The war on terror, the 7/7 bombings, the loss of the son's mother and the allegiance to either Islam or Britain. What will unfold. Family, Duty or Honour?
Set within the fictional smart city of SimBeijing, the CGI animation follows a self-driving car as they discuss their troubles with their built-in therapy program called Guanyin. The video is made within the custom-made virtual world of SimBeijing: an intelligent replica of the Chinese capital built to test self-driving cars. In this fictional scenario, the smart city has turned into a ghost town. Accompanied by CGI drive-through renders of SimBeijing, the narrator of this video is the eponymous ‘Theta’, a self-driving police car who patrols the streets of an uninhabited cityscape. Over the course of their dialogue with Guanyin, Theta reveals the darker reasons behind why the city has been abandoned...
Continuing Lawrence Lek’s ongoing ‘Sinofuturist’ cinematic universe, in which he explores the psychological impact of technology on emerging forms of nonhuman life.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
Two rebellious British Pakistani teenagers Amara and Halima plan another secret escape away from their dominating parents from Bradford to London. Their escape goes horribly wrong when Amara is kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity, with the real target being the daughter of a Bradford MP whose plans to tackle drug crime in the city have brought them into conflict with the top goon in town.
Exploring the dying whistling traditions of the Hmong people of northern Laos, whose sonic exchanges straddle the boundary between music and speech. The film follows the personal stories of three individuals from Long Lan village, as they reflect on their experience as practitioners of a vanishing musical language.
Official Selection Aesthetica Film Festival 2022
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2023
A road movie in search of the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the ‘lost’ garden of Lunuganga. Finding the treasure might be the goal, yet her search is the catalyst for encounters with a series of characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa’s life and work.
This film revisits the Chinese wallpaper from the 18th century at Harewood House. Such an exotic artefact was used by the landed gentry as a token of other to imagine the wider world. As the wallpaper was made in China, this film also explores self-representation through the artist’s personal photos.
