Europe´s largest South Asian Film Festival, The London Indian Film Festival, has a queer section. Too Desi Too Queer features a range of ground-breaking short films and documentaries which celebrate and amplify South Asian queer lives.

Highlights of the six-film programme for me include the cute Ruse, a short film about three teenage girls practicing a dance together at home. The friends´ time together evolves from innocent beginnings to a more charged performance as sexual feelings are awakened.

is another gem. With great Bollywood-style production values and an emotive soundtrack, we meet Tara, a Dalit trans woman in Bombay, who falls in love with a musician from a higher caste at a cool gig. With great warmth and confidence, we watch her navigate the pitfalls of her relationship.

Body Of Our Own is an interesting documentary about three lively Hijra women and their lives. Filmed over six years we are given unrivalled access to their lives, both trials and tribulations. A brilliant insight into largely undocumented lives.

Warm Shadows is an intriguing short that explores inter-generational queerness within a small family. With much unspoken and left to the imagination, we must draw our own conclusions.