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LONDON BOYS + Q&A

Feature Documentary
120 mins
2025
BBFC 18

Fresh from its World Premiere at SXSW London 2025 and screeing as part of the South Asian Heritage Month 2025 programme, we bring you a new documentary - LONDON BOYS + a post-screening Q&A.

Behind the loud and intimidating motorcycles of the "Bangladeshi Bad Boys" is a group of second-generation Bangladeshi men who find in their bikes a sense of identity and a way to overcome racism.

Co-directed by Arun Nangla and Laura Pavone, LONDON BOYS offers surprisingly vulnerable moments as it lifts a curtain on the racism faced by the Bangladeshi community in the UK, as well as the frustrations, hurt, and pain that come with it. With a loving lens of East London, the exploration of masculinity and Islamophobia is poignantly told by men facing an identity crisis at the intersection of the generational racism they’ve endured.

Stay around after the screening for a Q&A with Farook Shamsher (Joi) and Julie Begum (Swadhinata Trust).


Director:
Arun Nangla, Laura Pavone