This article presents three Bengali-English digital stories as vignettes and analyses young people's intercultural encounters as a moving story between Dhaka and London. The research case study is part of an international project, Critical Connections: Multilingual Digital Storytelling (2012-present), which links language and intercultural learning with literacy, active citizenship and the arts. Researching and writing together, the lead Bengali teacher and co-director of the project interrogate how young people open up spaces for Sylheti, Bengali and English through intercultural encounters and the making of their digital stories. In adopting a critical ethnographic research model, a ground roots, process oriented, collaborative and emancipatory approach to research is fostered. The study centres on an after-school Bengali club (11-14 year olds) in a mainstream school. Setting up the project within a non-formal educational context opened up space for a more imaginative pedagogical approach and closer connection with intergenerational experiences in the home and community. The young people's multilingual digital stories revealed their vibrant identities and the complexity and multilayerdness of their encounters with cultural artefacts. Creating the digital stories opened up ways of knowing that were sometimes unexpected and emotive and profoundly affected the young people and their strong sense of becoming intercultural.