Directing
Yousaf Ali Khan
Place of birth
London, England
Known for
Directing
Credits
7 titles
Yousaf Ali Khan is a British film director. He wrote and directed Skin Deep (2001), a short film about racism, and Talk With Angels (2003), another short film about a young boy whose mother had schizophrenia, a film that was partly autobiographical and which was nominated for an Oscar. He also directed Angels of Mercy? (2006), a Channel 4 documentary about Keith Mann and the Animal Liberation Front, and Almost Adult (2006), about two teenage girls who emigrate from the Congo and Kenya to the United Kingdom. The Guardian reported in 2005 that he was working on two further films. The Children's House is based on the book by Jewish writer Hetty Verolme, The Children's House of Belsen. Khan him…
Known for
Two refugee teenage girls from Africa meet and become friends and help each other deal with the horrors in their past.
Almost Adult
2006
8.7A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.
Talking with Angels
2003
6.0Set in a industrial wasteland, a young boy discovers a injured man who he thinks is his father.
No Way Home
2023
NRLondon, late 1970s. Romo distances himself from his Pakistani heritage, passing himself off as white in front of his work colleagues, a group of lads with connections to the National Front. When they invite him for a night out he gets drawn into a racial attack that reopens deep wounds from his own experiences of abuse.
Skin Deep
2001
Behind the camera
Two refugee teenage girls from Africa meet and become friends and help each other deal with the horrors in their past.
Almost Adult
2006
8.7A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.
Talking with Angels
2003
8.7A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.
Talking with Angels
2003
6.0Set in a industrial wasteland, a young boy discovers a injured man who he thinks is his father.
No Way Home
2023
6.0Set in a industrial wasteland, a young boy discovers a injured man who he thinks is his father.
No Way Home
2023
NRLondon, late 1970s. Romo distances himself from his Pakistani heritage, passing himself off as white in front of his work colleagues, a group of lads with connections to the National Front. When they invite him for a night out he gets drawn into a racial attack that reopens deep wounds from his own experiences of abuse.
Skin Deep
2001
NRLondon, late 1970s. Romo distances himself from his Pakistani heritage, passing himself off as white in front of his work colleagues, a group of lads with connections to the National Front. When they invite him for a night out he gets drawn into a racial attack that reopens deep wounds from his own experiences of abuse.
Skin Deep
2001