Asad Farooqui
Asad Farooqui makes films from the place most people learn to stop talking about — the exhausting, absurd, occasionally funny reality of living between two worlds and being fully claimed by neither.
The stories he tells don't announce themselves. They accumulate. A conversation that goes slightly wrong. A form that requires the wrong kind of proof. A word that doesn't translate.
His films have screened at the Atlanta Film Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, New Orleans Film Festival, Urbanworld, BronzeLens, Tasveer South Asian Film Festival, and more than a dozen festivals worldwide.
Through Desi Graffiti, he is now developing his first feature — bringing the same precise, unsentimental eye to stories that need more room to breathe.
