Filmography

The Work

Two produced short films with an international festival run. Three feature scripts in active development. All of it rooted in the same vision — stories that don't look away.

01 — Produced Films
Mabrook
Short Film · 2021
Mabrook
مبروك
A Film by Asad Farooqui
Congratulations — a word said at all the wrong moments.

A Pakistani-American man receives devastating news on the same day his family expects celebration. What follows is an intimate portrait of grief caught between two cultures — the rituals that don't transfer, the emotions that have no translation, and the particular loneliness of performing okay.

Mabrook quietly dismantles the idea that belonging is something you earn. Sometimes it is simply something you carry, alone, in a language nobody around you speaks.

FormatShort Film
Year2021
Festivals10+
StatusCompleted
Official Selections
Palm Springs ShortFest New Orleans Film Festival Atlanta Film Festival 16th Tasveer South Asian FF Chicago South Asian FF BronzeLens 2021 Bentonville Film Festival IFFSA Toronto WALK SIDE Film Festival The TIDE Film Festival
Short Film · 2023
A Version
A Film by Asad Farooqui · Desi Graffiti
Two people. One couch. Everything unsaid filling the room between them.

A Version is a taut, contained film about a couple whose relationship has reached the point where the performance of normalcy requires more effort than the relationship itself. Shot with quiet precision, it finds the comedy and the tragedy in exactly the same moment.

The film asks what we owe each other when we have already decided — and whether honesty, in certain rooms, is an act of generosity or cruelty.

FormatShort Film
Year2023
Festivals5+
StatusCompleted
Official Selections
Urbanworld Film Festival Atlanta Film Festival BronzeLens Film Festival Catalyst — Official Selection Int'l South Asian FF Canada
Trailer
A Version
02 — Feature Scripts in Development
01
The Immigration Game
Feature Film · 110 pp · 2024
What if the system that decides your fate treated you like entertainment? A story about the quiet absurdity of proving you are worthy of a place you have already made your home.
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02
MaBrook
Feature Film · 98 pp · 2024
Congratulations — a word said at all the wrong moments. A family, a funeral, a green card application, and a buried secret. All in 48 hours.
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03
Boundaries
Feature Film · In Development · 2025
A line drawn on the ground. Two neighbors. The argument is about property. It is never about property.
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