LSFF: New Shorts: Global Conflicts

A powerful selection of international dramas by British based filmmakers, looking at the global wars and revolutions around the world in the 21st century. Exploring controversial topics, from mines in the tense drama Ismail, to drones in Drone Strike and roadblocks in Checkpost. The action moves from Palestine to Pakistan to Afghanistan, and to the world of asylum seekers in Barzakh. There’s a story of more personal conflict in India in Uproot as rich and poor clash in terrible circumstances.