Yoshi, an elderly Japanese immigrant in Los Angeles, struggles to care for his wife Aiko. On the day Aiko's Alzheimer's disease turns her into a frighteningly different person Yoshi doubts the most important thing in his life: his love for his wife.
London, 1965. Nizam is depressed, drinking heavily and convinced that his wife Marjorie, who left him when their son was born, will return. In the course of one day, Nizam remembers his courtship and marriage in the fifties and in 2012 we see what happens, when Sajid finally finds Marjorie.
Shino's Show tells the story of a young Japanese woman, Shino, who works at a prestigious hairdressing school as a cleaner - except for that time once a month when her mother calls and she becomes a famous hairdresser.
Shino's Show tells the story of a young Japanese woman, Shino, who works at a prestigious hairdressing school as a cleaner - except for that time once a month when her mother calls and she becomes a famous hairdresser.
Unravel follows women workers in textile factories who sort, shred and prepare clothes for recycling that come over from Western countries. They reflect on these clothes and construct a picture of the lives of the owners, using their imagination and the rumours that travel with the cast-offs.
Shirin has dinner alone with her father in their small north London home. With her mother absent, little is said between them – until Shirin reveals she is going out for the evening.
In a small rural community of the remote Upper Himalayan region of Ladakh in India, two young sisters struggle with the onset of separation. As they try to make sense of their changing world we slowly discover a lost world where development threatens to tear the sisters apart.
This short film tells the story of Ash, a mixed-race girl from Old Trafford, Manchester, UK. On a youth referral scheme, we see Ash travel to the iconic Salford Lads Club where she takes up boxing as a way of dealing with her troubled past. By portraying Ash’s experience of the sport, the film highlights how the boxing ring can be a neutral space where race and neighborhood politics are left outside.
The film looks at not only Ash’s own experience of racism, but also the preconceptions she and others hold about other people and places.
Clench demonstrates how boxing can become the ultimate visual tool for communication between generations, highlighting that every person has a story to tell regardless of how they look.
Based on a true story, 'Looking For You' is a mysterious romantic drama exploring re-incarnation and also the idea of what is considered 'normal' in one culture can be considered mental illness in another.
A British Asian girl announces to a middle aged man that she is his wife in their last life in 1940's India.
Filmed over the course of a year, this film follows the story of one eight year old boy, and his friends and neighbours, all of whom live in the caves beside the destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan.
Madhabilata is a personal film, a journey to touch the wave of silence between me and my biological mother. An intricate embroidery of desire, suffering, denial and ‘looking back’. A painful hide 'n' seek game between me and my mother, between 'real' and 'unreal','self' and 'other' .
Tooting Broadway, is a film about what we are willing to do for the people we love, but deeper than that it focuses on the way we live our lives and the choices we feel we must make to survive. What is important to you? Your country, your family or your friends? Can you serve more than one master or must you choose?
2009, on the eve of the Tamil Parliament Protests, a mother reaches out to her estr...anged son, Arun, to return home to stop his younger brother from making a potentially catastrophic decision. Meanwhile, a seemingly meaningless murder will have profound consequences for Arun, his old friends and his family.
Arun has 24 hours to make things right, but his commitment to his new life is tested as old loyalties are brought to the fore and threaten to drag Arun into a world he has sworn to leave behind him.
