BFS: ISH (15)

Dir Imran Perretta, UK/US, 2025, 87 mins
Farhan Hasnat, Yahya Kitana, Sudha Bhuchar

12-year-old best friends Ishmail and Maram enjoy a close bond that is threatened by a traumatic, police stop-and-search operation. The boys must confront the resulting sense of betrayal, systemic surveillance, adolescent masculinity, and the abrupt end of childhood innocence.

A poignant and poetic urban pastoral about young masculinity, Muslim and south Asian communities, and the seedy and insidious new petty harassment of racial profiling and facial recognition tech GUARDIAN