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A young man struggles to fit into the fast-paced world of white-collar jobs as he tries to keep up with his friends' success. While he fears falling behind, he must realize that the true race is against himself.

Amidst moving homes, a superstitious Indian American girl struggles to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her.

Juxtaposing the east and west, Elisai is a south Indian story set in London. A dysphoric teenager, Elisai and her idealist mother, Amalie grieve the loss of Elisai’s grandfather. While Elisai suppresses her grief through isolation, Amalie focuses on getting through to her daughter. Despite Amalie’s implicit expressions of care, Elisai’s deteriorating state of mind dissects the importance of compassion. Shot in black and white, there are flavours of the past, present and future traversing throughout the film.

Aarya leaves her family in the city to pursue her passion for the arts. She is gifted a red scarf, and is haunted by a Churail; a demonic and malevolent South Asian Witch.

Mater Mortis is a short narrative film that asks what the limits of family bonds are under the weight of illness. Rajan must care for his mother, now afflicted with a condition that makes her the living dead. Relations between Rajan and his father fray as tensions rise to a head in this meditation on family, disease, and the right to life or death.

When a mysterious person gatecrashes Madhav and Sufi's wedding, the couple are forced to face past secrets and reevaluate their definitions of what makes a family.

In this short comedy drama, a trans South Asian person visits their family for Rakhi, a Hindu religious ceremony that symbolizes the bond between brothers and sisters. Celebrating a ceremony that is so centered around gender, this non-binary character must reconcile their gender identity with their deeply rooted family values.

Kinaara (Edge) tells the story of Adil, a carer to his elderly mother who has dementia. Sacrificing his own needs, he looks after her with little respite and spirals into despair.

After unexpectedly losing her hearing, a young Indian singer discovers a new sense of self through experiencing music in a transformative way.

A young man from Toronto, struggles with connecting with his culture, as he wishes to write and read his mother tongue. When his wish gets granted, he realizes it backfires as everything he writes and reads is in his mother tongue.

An Indian immigrant mother helps her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.

A tense drama set during the 2024 anti-immigration riots. Written, directed and starring Islah Abdur-Rahman (Man Like Mobeen, Alma's Not Normal), it explores identity, generational trauma, and the fight for belonging in a divided Britain.