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The Rain Has Stopped (2009)
Character: N/A
Liz, a lonely widow,returns home from her holiday in Torquay with Damar, a Nepalese ex-Gurkha, whom she intends to marry. Her grown-up,divorced daughter and son are hostile to him because they never imagined Liz would find another man to replace their father, who died young. Her neighbour, bitter because she has been made redundant by cheaper, Eastern European labour, reports the couple to the council, losing Liz her benefits and Damar his job. Relations are strained with Liz's daughter using her grandchildren as weapons. Only when Damar leaves in the middle of the night do Liz's family realize how much she loves him and urge her to follow him and bring him back.
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The Boarding School Bomber (2011)
Character: Imam
Compelling drama-documentary which tells the story of how, three years after the 7/7 attacks on London, a busy shopping centre in Bristol was the intended target of a devastating terrorist attack.
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Babs (2018)
Character: Vivek
A young man searches his deceased father’s flat for a document that will justify expenditure for a large sum of money. He’s not been to the flat for quite some time and discovers with stupefaction his father’s strange acquisition.
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Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila (2020)
Character: Nemo
Ben and Yasmine continue further south to the Moroccan coast, where they are attacked by Jamila and her group of parasitic bandits. The ethics of survival and predator-prey relationships in both human and marine species are explored, as members of another group intervene. But is this out of the frying pan and into the fire for the protagonists?
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Leviathan Cycle, Episode 5: Ismael (2020)
Character: Nemo
Our protagonists are taken captive aboard a gigantic cargo ship, whose megalomaniacal captain Ismael entertains biblical pretensions. Ben is made to ‘pay his passage’, while a ghostly Yasmine stalks the empty corridors of the ship. Whales and whaling become a key subject – interrogating colonial and indigenous politics in the process.
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Leviathan Cycle, Episode 6: Ding Ling & Senait (2020)
Character: Nemo
Ding Ling is a research scientist who fled Indonesia in the wake of rising sea levels, and at the start of the episode disembarks from the cargo ship on which she had been living. She moves onwards to explore new/old territories, revealing something of her past in Indonesia and China via Singapore as the episode progresses. During her journey she meets the resourceful Senait, an Eritrean refugee who subsists by evaporating water from the Dead Sea to make it potable. In her ongoing effort to compile an archive of those who remain, Ding Ling records an interview with Senait, where Senait recounts her own peripatetic past and perilous journey through Sudan.
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Sanjay Saves the World (2021)
Character: Sanjay
Sanjay, a biliouse, elderly man blind to his own loneliness finds comfort in living a humdrum, unvaried life.
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For God's Sake (2024)
Character: Janab Ji
A seamstress struggling with unrequited love makes a decision she has never made before.
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Jamal (2018)
Character: Jamal's Father
A British-Muslim teen goes on a night out with his friends expecting the usual but finds himself questioning his identity in the process.
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8 (2008)
Character: (segment "Person to Person")
8 shorts centered around 8 themes directed by 8 famous film directors involved and sharing their opinion on progress, on the set-backs and the challenges our planet faces today.
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Drachenfutter (1987)
Character: Shezad
Shezad is a Pakistani refugee seeking his fortune in Hamburg. At night, he sells roses in pubs. During the day, he is looking for a job. He starts working as a dishwasher and soup cook in a Chinese restaurant. Xiao, the waiter, and Shezad dream of opening their own restaurant. Herder, the janitor of the asylum seekers' home and part-time escape helper, has to go abroad. Shezad takes over his job and finds the money for the restaurant in East Berlin by not entirely legal means. So Shezad and Xiao's dream comes true. However, the day of the opening ends differently than the two of them had imagined.
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I Stand For Us (2020)
Character: Rob
When Naomi refuses to be exploited in her oppressive cleaning job, she must convince her colleagues to stand up and demand their right to be treated like a human being, or lose everything.
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God 2.0 (2023)
Character: God
God answers unscripted questions on live TV as billions of onlookers watch in awe.
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Indigo (2010)
Character: Uncle Vinod
Hanesh discovers he has special powers. Frightened, he starts to isolate himself from the rest of the world. HIs mother asks his Uncle Vinod to help but this confuses the boy even more. When his father collapses he is prevented from being able to help. He resolves to let his gift be known to the rest of the world
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Bring Me A Skin For Dancing In (2024)
Character: David Daniels
Having recently lost her twin sister to suicide, Helen Daniels is sent to a remote English cottage to rest and recuperate by her uncle. Upon arrival she meets a few of the locals who befriend her. She describes her difficult childhood growing up in New York and gradually, having won her trust, she is drawn into a world of witchcraft, paganism, and mythological beasts.
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The Secret Life of Sue Townsend (Aged 68 3/4) (2016)
Character: Self
A warm and witty celebration of Sue Townsend's life and writing, the story is told with the help of children from Sue's old school, her friends and family, as well as the comedy and literary stars she inspired - including Stephen Mangan, Ian Hislop, David Nicholls, Isy Suttie and Adrian Scarborough. Drawing on Sue Townsend's own archive of letters and notebooks, the film also features unseen photographs, footage and even her appointment diary, which includes poignant entries about her struggles with ill health, written in a humorous style instantly recognisable from her books.
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Unkenrufe (2005)
Character: Chatterjee
A Polish woman and a German man fall in love against the odds and decide to set up a cemetery for exiles. But can their daring venture survive the call of the toad? Adapted from Gunter Grass’ novel.
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Two Oranges and a Mango (1994)
Character: Lawyer
A brother and sister travel from London to India for the funeral rites of their estranged Sikh father. For her it is a chance to discover more about her homeland, but for him the confrontation with foreign customs and the burden of new duties is unwelcome and traumatic.
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Brothers in Trouble (1995)
Character: Gholam
Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
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Demon Baby (2014)
Character: Doctor Amin
A young couple looking to rekindle a damaged relationship retreat to the remote Scottish Highlands. They are haunted by their past, their surroundings and each other.
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State of Mind (2003)
Character: Abdul Yusuf
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his wife.
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The Long Roads (1993)
Character: Yussuf
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
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The Garland (1981)
Character: Vijay
"These Indian films. They're done to a formula - songs, dance, routines and a lot of sentimental heavy breathing." When her 17-year-old son Roy falls in love with a Muslim girl, and a Bangladeshi butcher seeks help from her husband Raji, Leela realises that the tears and romance of Indian cinema are closer to her own life than she has ever imagined.
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Mad Dogs (2002)
Character: Rashid
London, one year from today... The dogs of England are dying, of "Mad Dog Disease," and Rabbie Burns, young drifter and certified schizophrenic, is hearing voices again - on Underground trains, over supermarket tannoys, and on his own T.V. He has 30 hours, a last weekend, to save the world from itself, before the "Supreme Being" himself loses patience and starts over, with a new species...
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Dirty Filthy Love (2005)
Character: Hasim
A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
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Crushed Wings (2022)
Character: Masood
Ria, a seven-year-old girl growing up in a village, is led by her mother to a place where a group of women from her community await her. Here she is mutilated by an unqualified cutter, who completes the cultural FGM-ritual that ensures she will one day be taken as a wife. The child, once old enough, goes on to be forcibly married and moved away from her family to the England. Eventually, Ria seeks help in escaping the life she is trapped in, but the life of her two younger sisters hang in the balance. Can she change her elders' minds and prevent them from being led down the same path? Or will they become three more of 200 million women across the globe whose wings have been crushed by FGM?
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Twin Town (1997)
Character: Ranjit
Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with their family. When their father, Fatty, is injured while working on a roof for local kingpin Bryn Cartwright, they try in vain to claim compensation. Thus begins a campaign of terror, which local policemen Terry and Grayo are ill-equipped to prevent, involved as they are in a drugs deal with Cartwright.
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Pulp (2013)
Character: Stan
Thunder Racers, Infinite Finity, Rat Warriors. Junk Comics' titles have been referred to as 'the worst printed material since Mein Kampf'. Tony Leary, the nice-guy owner of Junk Comics, is gearing up for one last roll of the dice. His new superhero title, The Sodomizer, launches at the British International Comic Show, and nothing will stop Tony from making it a success. Nothing except a gang of Geordie criminals who are using a comic company to launder their dirty money. Tony is drafted by the police to identify the culprits and bring them to justice. Aided by his trusty geek sidekicks, Rick and Keith, Tony must defy the odds if he is to become a real life hero.
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Utopia (2015)
Character: Spiritual Man
Three interwoven stories of loneliness and isolation that centre around Janan, a woman from Afghanistan who travels to the UK for artificial insemination. Complications arise when William, a medical sciences student working in the clinic switches the donor's semen for his own.
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Sky Peals (2024)
Character: Bilal
Adam works night shifts at a fast food restaurant in a motorway service station. A directionless and unassuming man, he lives a lonely life, but upon hearing that his father has died, Adam finds himself in search of answers.
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Behind the Lens (2024)
Character: Professor
When a student documentary crew decides to interview Julia, a puzzling young woman willing to share her sensitive past, the project grows increasingly uncomfortable for the subject as the director's relentless scrutiny and unethical transgressions soon start to blur the lines between reality and performance.
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Sumotherhood (2023)
Character: Pinky Patel
Riko and Kane have got it all: big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes! So, it’s time to man up and finally be taken serious as “Roadmen”. Once putting their heads together on various ways to make some money, they decide to rob a megastar in a nightclub toilet and hold up the local bank but things inevitably don’t go to plan!
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Heartless (2010)
Character: Mr. Mohan
The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the East End of London, an area notorious for its violent hooded gangs. According to news reports, the gangs are now wearing demon masks. But, one night, Jamie discovers the terrifying truth.
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My Son the Fanatic (1997)
Character: Maulvi
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
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The Vote (2015)
Character: Pravin Shah
On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers. A church polling station is the backdrop for a real-time play for theatre and TV, called The Vote, staged at the exact moment in which the action is set - the last 90 minutes before polls close.
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Character: Temple Guard
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
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Compulsion (2008)
Character: Ranjit Sharma
A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man with nothing except his obsession. Are they the key to one another’s salvation? Or are they destined to destroy each other and themselves? Having just finished a degree at Cambridge, Anjika Indrani has the world at her feet. However when her father announces that he intends for her to marry the son of his business associate, Anjika is angry and distraught at the unfairness of it. Then help is offered from an unlikely corner. Her father’s sinister chauffeur Don Flowers proposes a way out… but it comes at a cost.
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Love Death and Eevrything In Between (2022)
Character: Pradeep
Experiencing their son’s life after his unnatural death while navigating their failing marriage; mourning parents Mira and Pradeep cannot overcome their grief but start to build their lives around it.
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A Business Affair (1994)
Character: Jaboul
This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and leaves Alec for Vanni. She writes another novel and Vanni tells her he doesn't think the book will sell. Both of their actions are an indication of their vanity and fear of losing her.
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Thunderbirds (2004)
Character: Kyrano
Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has landed on their island and is attempting a coup by using the team's rescue vehicles. He'll soon discover that the Thunderbirds won't go down.
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Immaculate Conception (1992)
Character: Raju
Alistair, a British representative for a wildlife conservation agency based in Karachi and his Jewish-American wife Hannah have been unsuccessful at conceiving a child. Over time, the desire to have a child begins to consume Hannah and she persuades a reluctant Alistair to go with her for three days to a fertility shrine. After a ceremony during which Hannah converts to Islam and coaxes Alistair to do the same, she becomes pregnant. But Hannah’s joy at the discovery of her pregnancy is overshadowed by worsening relations with Alistair who has started an affair with their friend Samira and tensions begin to mount when eunuchs from the shrine start to harass the couple.
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Snowden (2016)
Character: Marwan Al-Kirmani
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Character: Tariq
A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
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Anuvahood (2011)
Character: Shopkeeper
Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless "shotter", who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity.
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Drive Me to the End (2020)
Character: Sandeep
Ryan is a struggling son dealing with a constant internal battle regarding the inevitable loss of his Mother, and Sunny is desperate to escape the suffocating life that is depicted for her by her overbearing parents due to her being on the Autism spectrum. Both characters (and subsequently estranged family members) find themselves car-sharing to a funeral in Scotland. They have 3 days to feel comfortable in each other's company while feeling comfortable in their own skin.
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The Man Inside (2012)
Character: Rajiv Patel
A thriller centered on a young boxer trying to distance himself from his father's gangster past and the relationship with his trainer.
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The Infidel (2010)
Character: Sharif
Based in a London suburb Mahmud Nasir lives with his wife, Saamiya, and two children, Rashid and Nabi. His son plans to marry Uzma, the step-daughter of Egyptian-born Arshad Al-Masri, a so-called 'Hate Cleric' from Waziristan, Pakistan. Mahmud, who is not exactly a devout Muslim, he drinks alcohol, and does not pray five times, but does agree that he will appease Arshad, without whose approval the marriage cannot take place. Shortly thereafter Mahmud, while going over his recently deceased mother's documents, will find out that he was adopted, his birth parents were Jewish, and his name is actually Solly Shimshillewitz.
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Being Human (1994)
Character: Andre
One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
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A Reel Life (2021)
Character: Self
A screenwriter embarks on a new film script and finds his creation taking on a life of its own. Unable to tell fact from fiction, reality from unreality, he finds his life slowly becoming a film in this dark and surreal comedy drama.
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Junkhearts (2011)
Character: Hasan
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. Lynette, a young rough sleeper watches Christine stumble out of a club whilst she sits in the cold waiting for loose change to fall on her lap; her luck seems to change when she meets Frank who despite his misgivings, offers her a place to stay.
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Kate and the Cosmonaut (2020)
Character: Charles
Kate is stuck in a dead-end warehouse job, when she receives a mysterious message. But with a boss this controlling, building a friendship is hard, especially when the other person is trapped across the universe.
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Blank (2022)
Character: Dr. Varma
A desperate writer signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer's block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.
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Ashes (2012)
Character: Angry Patient
One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.
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