Movies: Bhasker Patel

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 op...

"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 realis...

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 hel...

A closeted gay actor who's known for playing a superhero character on an 80s TV show must confront his dual identity....

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 unwe...

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....

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....

A seamstress struggling with unrequited love makes a decision she has never made before....

Shirin has dinner alone with her father in their small north London home. With her mother absent, little is said between them - until Shirin reveals she is going out for the evening....

Sanjay, a biliouse, elderly man blind to his own loneliness finds comfort in living a humdrum, unvaried life....

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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A British-Muslim teen goes on a night out with his friends expecting the usual but finds himself questioning his identity in the process....

After deciding to drop out of his Uni, Aarsh confronts his parents on the occasion of his grandfather's first death anniversary....

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...

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....

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 an...

Two avid gardeners start a rivalry that gets out of hand....

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 thei...

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 so...