The London Indian Film Festival shines an important spotlight on British Asian history through a series of short documentaries looking at British Asian punk music, miscarriage of justice, Identity, Racism, and stereotypes of the ubiquitous Cornershop, featuring Aki Nawaz and Satpal Ram.

The films screened:

More Punk Than Punk
Dir: Azeem Rajulawalla | 25 mins | English
Since the 1970s, Aki Nawaz has wrestled with his place in the world as an artist, a Pakistani and a punk. In 2006, he channeled these frustrations into his most controversial album to date, All Is War.

After Eight: The Story of Satpal Ram
Dir: Mos Hannan, Usayd Younis | 30 mins | English
After Eight tells the story of Satpal Ram, uncovering a landmark British miscarriage of justice and the global campaign that secured his release. But freedom brought its own struggle, as he now faces the enduring demons of his past.

The Dhaba
Dir: Alia Syed | 32 mins | English
Weaving together a series of interviews with members of the South Asian community in Glasgow, oral history and moving image, The Dhaba explores the role of imagination in migration, and how images carried across multiple generations of migrants from India and Pakistan can create new landscapes and enable new ways of being.

Shop Dada - The Cornershop That Built Us
Dir: Darshan Gajjar | 22 mins | English, Gujarati with English subtitles
Filmmaker Darshan Gajjar retraces the journey of his grandfather, Pravin Mistry, who fled Uganda and rebuilt his life running corner shops in Britain. Revisiting his grandfather’s home videos, Darshan returns to the first shop decades later, uncovering the sacrifice and resilience hidden behind a familiar South Asian stereotype.