Short Films - UK Asian Film Festival

UKAFF presents a series of short films centred on South Asian experiences while addressing the 2025 festival theme ‘Longing and Belonging’. They trace stories about people wrestling with feelings of longing for love, home, acceptance, meaning, and the abiding desire to truly belong. Delving into these emotional landscapes, the films in this programme explore identity, self-acceptance, cultural reckoning, and cultural displacement alongside questions of family dynamics and the personal search for ‘home’. The film screening will be followed by a Q/A with visiting talent. Go Back To Your Country Dir. Islah Abdur-Rahman 2025. UK. English Duration: 07:02 Based on the violent anti-immigration riots following the murders in Stockport in July 2024, the film is a poignant look at shared struggles and pain. The Closest Point Dir. Dilesh Korya 2025. UK. English Duration: 15:35 A couple has to make the hardest decision any parent could face about their premature baby as well as their relationship before a magical, unexpected, and life-affirming event changes their lives. Aloo Puri Dir. Aditi Sridhar 2024. USA. English, Hindi Duration: 14:00 Aloo Poori follows the story of a mother and daughter during their last day of living together in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. Code/Switch Dir. Alexander Moffat 2024. UK. Bengali, English, Hindi Duration: 13:24 A chameleon by nature, Ashir Pradhan has spent a lifetime code-switching in order to fit in and today, en route to a corporate interview, is no exception. Time Dir. Kiran Rai, Baljit Singh 2024. Canada. Panjabi Duration: 10:28 After losing her husband to dementia, Surjit becomes consumed by her grief and seeks solace in her memories of her younger days. The Seas Between Us Dir. Faisal Lutchmedial 2024. Canada. English Duration: 13:44 In the mid 1960s, a young girl who has never seen anything but rural Trinidad has her eyes opened to the world when her adventurous Auntie from India comes to visit. Seen Dir. Shuchi Kothari 2024. New Zealand. Gujarati Duration: 11:00 During the lunch break of what seems like an interminable corporate picnic, Anju stumbles into a hole in the ground and finds herself terrified inside a subterranean step well, and encounters different levels of intimacy with Namita, a colleague. A Pearl in the Ocean Dir. Vasundhara Jadhav 2022. India. English Duration: 13:42 A documentary about Tushar Roy, a confident 19-year old homosexual boy who likes to belly-dance. A Better Place Dir. Ali Sohail Jaura 2024. Pakistan, Korea. Bengali, English, Korean Duration: 12:20 After being abandoned by her mother on a bus stop in the city of Seoul, 7-year old Jia sees light in a stranger, an illegal South Asian immigrant stuck in South Korea after unsuccessfully performing “Donkey Flight”. Farewell Dir. Soham Kundu 2024. UK. English, Tamil Duration: 15:00 Two friends: one with a broken heart, the other on the brink of marriage. Together they set out on a day's journey that leads them to confront their past amidst shared grief and hopes for a brighter future. Image credit: Still. Seen. 2024. Dir. Shuchi Kothari.PT2H7MPG2025-05-10Short Films - UK Asian Film Festival"Short Films - UK Asian Film Festival"

Showtimes

May 10, 7:00 pm