Discover bold new voices in contemporary UK cinema with the British Council’s film touring programme. This edition features a compelling selection of films, including Name Me Lawand (2022, UK), Roll Down the Window (2024, UK), Three Meals (2024, UK/USA), and DÉDÉ (ANCESTOR) (2024, UK) — stories that cross borders and challenge perspectives.
These films are open to all audiences who are 18 years and above. Open to members and non-members and the screening will take place in our physical libraries.
Screening schedule in our centers in Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata
| Name of the film | Duration | Month, Date and Time of screening | Short description |
| Name Me Lawand (2022, UK) | 91 minutes |
September 19 September 2025 4.00 p.m. |
Lawand is a young Kurdish boy, deaf since birth. After a treacherous journey and a year in a Dunkirk refugee camp, the help of a deaf volunteer brings his family to Derby, where Lawand joins the Royal School for the Deaf. As he grows older, the film follows his dramatic progress in learning British Sign Language, revealing a bright, charismatic, and inquisitive boy who discovers friendship and a new way to express himself. |
| Roll Down the Window (2024, UK) | 10 minutes - movie will preview before a short discussion to celebrate World Mental Health Day |
October 10 October 2025 4.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. |
Filmmaker Lipa Hussain interrogates a neurological condition she has experienced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religious and racial struggles. ‘Alice In Wonderland’ syndrome causes the sensation of shrinking and losing bodily control; Roll Down The Window explores the idea of utilising AIW to confront an enemy from Lipa’s past. |
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Three Meals (2024, UK/USA) DÉDÉ (ANCESTOR) (2024, UK) |
14 minutes movie will preview before celebration of Womens Day 3 minutes movie will preview before celebration of Womens Day |
March 6 March 2026 6.00 pm onwards |
Set in one location and segmented across three meals over the course of a day, Three Meals is a mother and daughter drama, charting the chasm between them, despite their intimate connection, and navigates towards a resolution that could save their relationship DÉDÉ (ANCESTOR) delves into diasporic female identity through an exploration of the director’s Bété ancestry, a tribe in central Ivory Coast. The film is a journey into the region’s feminine cosmology and folkloric traditions, guided by feminine icons such as tribal fertility carvings, masks, sculptures, mythological fables and deities. |
For more information please write to Indialibraries@britishcouncil.org