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.

Past Screenings

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

Screened in partnership with UK Asian Film Festival

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

Screened in partnership with UK Asian Film Festival

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

Screened in partnership with UK Asian Film Festival

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

Screened in partnership with UK Asian Film Festival

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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