Menhaj Huda, director of the 2006 film 'Kidulthood', writes and directs this coming-of-age drama about a young British-Asian man caught in a culture clash. Ash (James Floyd) keeps his head down during the week, adhering to his family's strict moral codes and working for the family business. But as the weekend comes around he is let loose into the very different world of London's club scene, where he pursues his long-held dream of becoming a DJ.

The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in Lahore provides a mirror image of the political and social events happening in the outside world. The same actors are used for both inmates and rulers. This powerful film was made 40 years after partition by artist and director, Ken McMullen, adapted in collaboration with Tariq Ali from the short story, 'Toba Tek Singh', by acclaimed Urdu writer, Sadaat Hasan Manto.

Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from his beginnings as a young Indian lawyer to his triumph as a revolutionary - whose philosophy of non-violent protest helped gain India its independence. The film won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.