New Brit Asian Shorts
Director: Various
Run time: 120 mins | Recommended Certificate: 15
Language: English | Year: 2025-26 | Country: UK
The London Indian Film Festival is delighted to bring to audiences a selection of brilliant short films from exciting and emerging filmmakers from the UK. From award-winning dramas to insightful documentaries, we’re showcasing a rarely presented slice of life of Asian Britain today. Expect a dynamic discussion with these talented filmmakers on stage.
New Brit Asian Shorts Programme
Party Animal
Dir: Ali Gill | 12 mins | 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
Dir: Shehroze Khan | 18 mins | 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
Dir: Amar Singh Sethi | 15 mins | 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
Dir: Muskaan Razdan | 7 mins | 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
Dir: Dan Sloan | 16 mins | 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
Dir: Jill Worsley | 14 mins | 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.