[4] Told through the stories of four participants from Black and Asian backgrounds, the film explores how the lives of international students, members of the Windrush generation and so-called 'Highly-Skilled Migrants' have been affected.

As one of ten children born to a couple who left India for Wolverhampton following Partition, she strove to put migration and social change at the centre of her storytelling.

Distribution rights were acquired by BFI Player, VGTV, SBS, Public Media Group of Southern California, and Rialto.

[12][13] Hostile director Sonita Gale has also participated in many Q&As at screenings, with figures including Nitin Sawhney, film critic Jason Solomons, John Sauven, campaigner Patrick Vernon, Ursula Macfarlane (director of Untouchable), UK Director of Human Rights Watch Yasmine Ahmed, Refugee Council CEO Enver Solomon, MP Stephen Timms, Bella Sankey, Maya Goodfellow, Sonali Naik, Zoe Gardner and activist Andrew Feinstein.

"[27][28] Amelia Gentleman, a Guardian journalist who has reported extensively on the Windrush scandal, wrote that "Gale's portrayal of Sair's predicament is so clear and powerful that the pointless human damage wrought by these complexities is laid bare.

Not content with highlighting the obvious indignities and cruelties of how the policy operates and how it leaves victims in desperate circumstances, but into why it is there in the first place.

"[30] Mariella Frostrup of Times Radio called it "a film that demands our attention" and Abiba Coulibaly of Sight and Sound praised it as "one of the most comprehensive accounts of how we arrived at our current immigration system legislation.