Shifting the Lens on Diversity with My Melbourne

My Melbourne is the 2025 anthology film that unites Indian directors Onir, Imtiaz Ali, Rima Das and Kabir Khan to explore the depths of Australian city's diversity. The pillars of sexuality, disability, gender and race are cemented through four stories set in Melbourne, Victoria- home to 36% of Australia's Indian migrants. Suhayla Sharif explores bridge building with filmmaking in conversation with My Melbourne's producer Mitu Bhowmick Lange AM and writers Shivangi Bhowmick, Monique Nair and Nazifa Amiri. Listen now, only on SBS Spice, wherever you find your podcasts.

SBS Spice uncovers the layers of My Melbourne, the Indian-Australian collaborative film dedicated to a city's embrace of its diversity. Image: Supplied.

Cinema is the perfect bridge between countries, between communities, between people. Yes, we are all diverse, we are all different, yet we celebrate those differences.

Mitu Bhowmick Lange AM, producer of My Melbourne

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