Wednesdays:
26 July
2 August
9 August
16 August
The South Asia Gallery is all about storytelling, promoting alternative perspectives and hidden or unusual narratives. Over South Asian Heritage Month we will showcase thought-provoking films to celebrate and share South Asian film and cinema.
Doors: 6pm
Film starts: 6.30pm
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi tells the true story of the 1857 Indian Rebellion against the British East India Company.
Doors: 5.45pm
Film starts: 6.15pm
Saim Sadiq’s film explores the unsettled social and sexual identities of a widower and his children with delicacy and tenderness.
Doors: 6pm
Film starts: 6.30pm
To mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, join us for a film night putting the spotlight on the Chagossian community.
Doors: 5.30pm
Film starts: 6pm
Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
Throughout South Asian Heritage Month, Dishoom will be serving Dishoom House Chai from our Main Hall during our Wednesday late openings.
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