Project Detail

Hotel London

Hotel London

Synopsis

An Asian family who become homeless are placed in a bed and breakfast hotel by the local authority. There they come into contact with other people from different backgrounds who are waiting to be housed. Their plight is depicted with sensitivity and humour. Jonathan Pryce plays a single Irishman who drifts around London sleeping rough.
HOTEL LONDON was originally produced in 1987. The film was remastered in 4K in 2025 by the BFI National Archive.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere (Remastered version)

Details

Year
1987
Type of project
Features
Running time
52 min
Format
16mm film
Director
Ahmed Alauddin Jamal
Producer
Mahmood Jamal
Editor
John Dinwoodie
Screenwriter
Ahmed Jamal
Director of Photography
Sabastian Shah
Production Designer
Dave Lingaard
Sound
Albert Bailey
Composer
Keith Waithe
Principal cast
Jonathan Pryce, Alpana Sengupta, Aftab Sachak
Other Lead Creative(s)
Adrian McLoughlin, Julia Tarnoky, Sudha Bhuchar

Genre

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Retake Film and Video Collective

Ahmed Jamal

Sales Company

First Take Limited

Ahmed Jamal

Page updates

This page was last updated on 6th October 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.

See also

You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.

Galicia! Galicia!

Director: Anna Maguire, Kyle Greenberg

Year: 2026

What if you went on a holiday and the apocalypse happened? GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days. We live in a time where the sense of our impending mutually assured destruction is more real than it’s ever been. GALICIA! Takes the form of a holiday video - a document of a couple before - and after the great cataclysm. The film starts as something that feels unedited - an accidental video diary of an ordinary couple that feels somewhat ghostly as much as it is also pedestrian. As the film evolves and degrades, we are led to question the fragility of humanity, as well as its power to endure.

Animation image of two characters (Death and Little Death) standing on a cliff. A Little Death

Director: Leto Meade, Jonathan Rockefeller

Year: 2026

Death’s patience is tested as his sweet and gentle apprentice appears incapable of the task, leading him to seek professional help from the most unlikely of places. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2026

A spooky family home looms at dusk I Don't Live Here

Director: Toby Parker Rees

Year: 2026

On the one-year anniversary of her father’s death, Charlotte returns to her childhood home for dinner with her family, but the evening soon spirals out of control.