For your consideration

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A list of documentaries / films directed by British South Asian directors / films where British South Asian actors have a featured role set outside of Britain / series / shorts / TV movies of note portraying British South Asian diaspora narratives and/or featuring British South Asian protagonists. Most links direct to IMDb or similar.

 

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A

• Acting Our Age (Dir. Gurinder Chadha 1992 - short documentary)

• All My Heroes Were Peacocks (Dir. Jamal Mehmood, 2018 - short)

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B

• Baghdad Express (Dir. Nimer Rashed, 2008 - short)

• Banglatown Banquet (Dir. Hettie Macdonald, 2006 - TV movie)

• The Boy With The Topknot (Dir. Lynsey Miller, 2017 - TV movie)

• Bradford Riots (Dir. Neil Biswas, 2006 - TV movie)​

• Britain On Film: South Asian Britain (Dir. -archival-, 2017 - documentary)

• Brtiz (Dir. Peter Kosminsky, 2007 - mini series)

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C

• The Circuit (Dir. Ben Taylor, 2016 - TV movie)

• Crime And COVID In London's Little India (Dir. Isher Sahota, 2021 - short documentary)

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D

• The Dance Of Shiva (Dir. Jamie Payne, 1998 - short)

• Daytimer (Dir. Riz Ahmed, 2014 - short)

• Diana (Dir. Aleem Khan, 2009 - short)

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F

• Fancy A Redo? (Dir. Gurjant Singh, 2022 - short)

• Fatima’s Letter (Dir. Alia Syed, 1992 - short documentary)

• Flight (Dir. Alex Pillai, 1997 - TV movie)

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G

• Garfield (Dir. Georgi Banks-Davies, 2017 - short)

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H

• Handsworth Songs (Dir. John Akomfrah, 1986 - documentary)

• A Home (Dir. Parveen Ali, 2021 - short documentary)

• Hostile (Dir. Sonita Gale, 2022 - documentary)

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I

• I’m British But... (Dir. Gurinder Chadha, 1990 - short)

• Indian Tales (Dir. Asif Kapadia, 1994 - short)

• It’s Not Unusual (Dir. Kfir Yefet, 1995 - short)

J

• Jimmy Will Play (Dir. Mawaan Rizwan, 2011 - short)

• Jinn (Dir. Isher Sahota, 2017 - short)

• Jump Boy (Dir. Menhaj Huda, 1999 - short)

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K

• Kaur (Dir. Kaki Wong, 2022 - short)

• Killing My Girl (Dir. Tasos Giapoutzis, 2014 - short)

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L

• Latifah And Himli's Nomadic Uncle (Dir. Alnoor Dewshi, 1992 - short documentary)

• London Me Bharat (Dir. Vinod Pande, 1972 - short documentary)

• Londonstani (Dir. Nirpal Bhogal, 2018 - short)

• The Long Goodbye (Dir. Aneil Karia, 2020)

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M

• Matangi Maya M.I.A. (Dir. Steve Loveridge, 2018 - documentary)

• Memsahib Rita (Dir. Pratibha Parmar, 1994 - short)

• Mirror, Mirror (Dir. Yugesh Walia, 1980 - short)

• Mohammed (Dir. Mustapha Kseibati, 2014 - short)

• Munãfiq (Dir. Shakil Mohammed, 2008 - short)

• Murdered By My Father (Dir. Bruce Goodison, 2016 - TV movie)

• Muriid (Dir. Jamal Mehmood, 2020 - short)

• Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music (Dir. Vivek Bald, 2003 - documentary)

• My Pure Land (Dir. Sarmad Masud, 2017 - director of note)

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N

• New Model Army (Dir. Pratap Rughani, 2000 - documentary)

• A Nice Arrangement (Dir. Gurinder Chadha, 1991 - short)

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Q

• Queer Parivaar (Dir. Shiva Raichandani, 2022 - short)

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R

• Rent (Dir. Asham Kamboj, 1999 - short)

• The Return Of Ray Lamere (Dir. Henry Darke, 2016 - short)

• The Road To Guantanamo (Dir. Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom, 2006 - documentary)

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S

• The Saint Of Southall (Dir. Isher Sahota, 2020 - short)

• The Sandwich (Dir. Asham Kamboj, 2002 - short)

• Sari Red (Dir. Pratibha Parmar, 1988 - short documentary)

• Side By Side (Dir. Jamie Hooper, 2010 - short)

• Sparks: All The Small Things (Dir. Raisah Ahmed, 2020 - short)

• Stealing (Dir. Asham Kamboj, 2015 - short)

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T

• Things We Never Said (Dir. Manjinder Virk, 2022 - short)

• Three Brothers (Dir. Aleem Khan, 2014 - short)

• Two Dosas (Dir. Sarmad Masud, 2014 - short)

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W

• The Waiting Room (Dir. Asif Kapadia, 1996 - short)

• The Wayfaring Stranger (Dir. Aleem Khan, 2011 - short)

• What Do You Call An Indian Woman Who's Funny (Dir. Gurinder Chadha, 1994 - short documentary)