New Brit-Asian Shorts

+ Q&A

New and exciting short films from emerging British Asian filmmakers.

  • Total running time 122min

LIFF is delighted to introduce a selection of brilliant short films from emerging UK filmmakers. Comprising riveting dramas and insightful documentaries, they present a rarely seen slice of contemporary British-Asian life. The screenings are accompanied by discussions with the filmmakers.

Party Animal

Director Ali Gill. 12min. English

A dispirited barber is tormented by the discovery that a beloved local politician is turning into a donkey. Enchanted by the politician’s charm, who will ever believe him?

Leave Me Alone

Director Shehroze Khan. 18min. English

A British-Pakistani must confront her ancestral trauma head-on when she is haunted by a malevolent spirit seeking retribution for colonial atrocities in British India.

Sweaty Hands

Director Amar Singh Sethi. 15min. English

A promising young professional’s relentless pursuit of his corporate dream job takes an unexpected turn when he discovers the company’s culture shatters his rose-tinted illusions.

Salt

Director Muskaan Razdan. 7min. English

After another one of Papa’s outbursts, Tisha and Maa debrief in the kitchen. But Tisha realises that she might not be that different from her father.

Good Behaviour

Director Dan Sloan. 16min. English

A surreal psychological drama about a tormented prisoner who undergoes an alternative talking therapy to reframe the memories of his crime.

Tell Your Face

Director Jill Worsley. 14min. English

Haunted by her late mother’s praise of her smooth skin, Chikana hits 30 and begins to obsess over her developing wrinkles. Without the money or motivation for Botox, she concocts an absurd and extreme way to stop them in their tracks.