Directing
Asim Abbasi
Born
1986-06-01 (40)
Place of birth
Karachi, Pakistan
Known for
Directing
Credits
5 titles
Asim Abbasi is a Pakistani-British film director, screenwriter and producer who also has his own production company, Indus Talkies. In 2012, he made the short film Anathema. In 2013, he made two more short films, Once A Man & Whore. Two years later, he made his fourth short film named Little Red Roses. All four were shot in the United Kingdom. In 2018, Abbasi's first feature film, Cake, was lauded by critics. The Guardian's Mike McCahill wrote "Uncommonly alert to small, telling details, while more expansive in its attitudes, the result proves far richer and worldlier than anything previously observed coming down the Khyber Pass." Cake was also selected to be Pakistan's submission to the 9…
Known for
7.0A woman who takes care of her aging parents and their land is joined by her sister when their parents' health worsens.
Cake
2018
NRThe Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen the murder of visiting jazz singer Cab Vee, and it is up to the Five to uncover just who is plotting to kill him.
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
2024
NRThe theft of a priceless new code machine by enemy agents sends the Five on an eventful train journey up to Scotland.
Peril on the Night Train
2024
NRA short film that ends up raising a number of rather large questions: about Christianity and homosexuality, about love and grief, about life and death.
Anathema
2012
Behind the camera
7.0A woman who takes care of her aging parents and their land is joined by her sister when their parents' health worsens.
Cake
2018
7.0A woman who takes care of her aging parents and their land is joined by her sister when their parents' health worsens.
Cake
2018
NRThe Five reunite at a hotel on Cragstone Ridge, where old foe Thomas Wentworth seeks their help. He has foreseen the murder of visiting jazz singer Cab Vee, and it is up to the Five to uncover just who is plotting to kill him.
Mystery at the Prospect Hotel
2024
NRThe theft of a priceless new code machine by enemy agents sends the Five on an eventful train journey up to Scotland.
Peril on the Night Train
2024
NRA short film that ends up raising a number of rather large questions: about Christianity and homosexuality, about love and grief, about life and death.
Anathema
2012