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Short Film 19:28Documentary: A Good Question एक अच्छा सवालUK, India 2025
Migration has reshaped the Doaba region of Punjab (India) leaving homes crowned with colloquial water tank sculptures. Concrete curiosities – planes, tractors and animals stand as striking emblems of diasporic success. Through sculptor Davinder’s craft and his own emigration plans, the film explores migration's enduring socio-political and emotional impact post colonisation.

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Short Film 19:11Documentary: In the Wake of RememberingUK 2024
Three women unearth and reflect on their memories of witnessing and supporting the Burnsall Strike, a 1992 workers' resistance movement that Punjabi women led in Smethwick, Birmingham. From within their memories, another voice emerges - reflecting and bringing the women’s experience from the street to the domestic and personal. Together, the voices attempt to reconstruct the forgotten wholeness of the lives of South Asian women against the political and social backdrop of the UK.

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Short Film 12:51Documentary: For a Brief MomentUK, 2023
A bright apartment in London. Abby Cheng moves through the quiet rhythms of her daily life—working from home, reheating takeout, taking solitary walks. Beneath the mundanity, uncertainty lingers. Her visa status, fragile and temporary, turns routine tasks into reminders of displacement. In the stillness of her rented flat, in the silence between calls, her thoughts drift to Taiwan. A place both near and distant, a question unanswered.

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04:43Video Essay: Largest in the SmallestUK, 2023
Reflecting on how trains, despite (or due to) being salient non-places, functioning within the limitations of clock time schedules, prescriptive, prohibitive and informative texts (such as ‘please stand on the right’, ‘no smoking’, ‘next station is..”), enable us - the passengers - to experience time in a non-routinized way for a temporary period, giving us the liberty to let our minds wander to places we otherwise do not have space to in our hurried, structured everyday lives. The film tries to explore how this non-relational time spent in trains, the outward nature of which is often observed to be quite scripted and performed, perhaps gives us the opportunity to open ourselves inwards - allowing for a myriad of thoughts, conflicts, absurdities to enter the stream of our day.

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Short Film 16:05Documentary: As the Kite FliesKashmir, 2018
Looking for Azaadi in Srinagar, Kashmir.

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