
We wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year!

Filipiñana by Filipino director Rafael Manuel is the Philippines’ official entry to the 2027 Oscars for the Best International Feature Film category, and will be in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 20 November. It has its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 17 October.

As we celebrate the ESEA Heritage Month with events that are threaded neatly together, we highlight two ESEA organisations: besea.n and esea contemporary, two organisations dedicated to amplifying East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain.

Britain doesn’t need much help introducing itself to my children. They live here. English is everywhere. The Filipino side? That’s different. That has to travel through us somehow.