UK Asian Film Festival

The UK Asian Film Festival is the longest running South Asian film festival in the UK. Organised by the charity Tongues on Fire, it celebrates the very best in films with a link to South Asia.

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Upcoming Screenings

UK Asian Film Festival presents Documentary Long Shorts 18

The UK Asian Film Festival, in its 28th year, celebrates powerful cinema from South Asia and its diaspora, uniting bold storytelling… Read More
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Various Directors, India, Pakistan, 2025, 94m.
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Sun 03 May
14:00

UK Asian Film Festival presents Mamun: In Praise of Shadows 18

Mamun: In Praise of Shadows is an intimate chronicle of the artistic journey of Nasir Ali Mamun, the pioneering Bangladeshi portrait photographer… Read More
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Makbul Chowdhury, Bangladesh, UK, 2025, 66m.
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Sun 03 May
16:20

Past Screenings

Unspoken - A Mental Health Film Festival presents Provoked + Panel 18

This screening will be followed by an in-person panel discussion with Rahila Gupta, Prof. Dinesh Bhugra, and Rachel Kelly moderated by… Read More
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Jag Mundhra, India, 2006, 110m.
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Parikrama 18

Alessandro is an Italian writer-filmmaker making a film on the Narmada Parikrama—an age-old pilgrimage along the holy river Narmada. During the… Read More
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Goutam Ghose, 2024, India, Italy, 112m.
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We Are Faheem & Karun 18

Karun, a security man from southern India, is posted to Gurez, a remote village in Kashmir. There, he begins a relationship… Read More
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Onir, India , 2024, 79m.
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Her Right to Play 18

In the wake of the ban on women's football in 2014, the national team in Pakistan faced an uncertain and turbulent… Read More
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Mohammed Ali Sheilh, United Arab Emirates, 2024, 75m.
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Kids Fight 18

Kids Fight narrates the story of Bilal and his friends who are struggling to survive drug addiction and poverty on the… Read More
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Sarah Tareen, Pakistan, 2025, 104m.
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Snow Leopard 18

UK Asian Film Festival presents a special tribute screening of Snow Leopard with an introduction from Sonali Joshi and a live Dranyen… Read More
Screened in partnership with UK Asian Film Festival
Pema Tseden, Tibet, 2023, 110m.
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