But Where Are You Really From?

Cracks and culture collisions emerge in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George (Om Puri)) and English mother. Puri's immense depiction of a father figure of deep contradictions, who unreasonably and brutally tries to hold his children to a standard that he himself has eluded, sets the heart to this often hilarious but at times vicious storyline. (Isra Al Kassi)

My mum couldn't be any less interested in sport, except that is for cricket, put a test on, give her a rum and coke and she can sing lyrical about the West Indies team. My dad meanwhile has lived in the UK for nearly 50 years, but he’s never more Australian than when England are playing them. So, when I first watched Playing Away, Horace Ove’s comedic flipping of stereotypes and mannerisms, that also tells a story that seems so disproportionality important to those who just don't get it, well, it made complete sense to me. (Nellie Alston, T A P E collective)

Anna May Wong’s enigmatic performance made this is one of the greats the of silent era. But what also marks Piccadilly out is it’s surprisingly direct approach to issues of race - one scene even has a white woman expelled from a bar for dancing with a black man, which though no doubt common at the time isn't something you expect to be addressed on happy-go-lucky celluloid. Its cast and crew are also international in a way that feels natural to anyone who lives in London today - Chinese-American, Polish-American, British, German... Piccadilly therefore is a film that is true to the place it is set in ways that so many aren't, even today. (T A P E collective)

Realising life is short, Tony seeks to break down the cultural barriers that lie between father and son.

Daniel's father left Hong Kong aged 14 and spent his life as a seaman coming in and out of the Liverpool docks where he married an English girl. The ashes need to return 'home' for his spirit to rest... but Daniel realises he's not sure where 'home' is.

"I'm ashamed to say that before watching this doc, MIA to me was just that girl who sang "Paper Planes" but ever since I've been obsessed. She's so swaggering, so thoughtfully uncompromising. What a story!" (Nellie Alston, T A P E collective)

Robbie Ryan is one of my favourite DOPs and, alongside director John Maclean, beautifully & playfully captured the heady, intense rush of going forth into new lands through this amazing use of colour. (Angela Moneke, T A P E Collective)

Based entirely on interviews with exiles, transplanted from Southwest reservations. The Exiles follows the lives of young Native Americans living in LA as they flirt, drink, party, fight, and dance through the night.

Beginning in Xiaolu’s own adopted home - the streets of Hackney - and journeying to the cities of Rome and Paris, the film captures the filmmaker’s parents on their first, and final trip, outside of China. The difference in culture often resulting amusing exchanges, for though her father always dreamed of seeing the West, her mother thinks China is best.

The fragmented connections of two people joined not by language or culture but rather grief, makes the multilingual basis of this film all the more urgent, with every interaction hanging from the thread of what's intended against what is understood.

I've always found Ngozi Onwurah to have such a masterful way of mixing form and genre. Her exploration of the racist experiences and internal conflict of mixed race children is no exception to that. (Angela Moneke, T A P E Collective)

One of my all time favourite directors, ghostly worlds have never been so hauntingly beautiful and true in a way that needn't be explained. (Nellie Alston, T A P E collective)