Yasmin

Kenneth Glenaan (2004 )

UK and Germany

Written by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (The Full Monty, Among Giants) and starring Archie Panjabi (TV's Sea of Souls, Bend it Like Beckham, East is East) director Kenneth Glenaan's award winning Yasmin is a compelling and topical drama set amongst a Muslim community in the North of England before and after teh events of 9/11. 

Yasmin is a spirited woman whose life has become a precarious balancing act as she attempts both to please her traditional Pakistani family and enjoy the freedoms of Western life. Having rebelled against her family as a teenager, Yasmin yields to the demands of her widowed father and agrees to marry a cousin 'from home'. The omens are not good when the goat-herder from a Pakistani village meets the vivacious Westernised Yasmin. After the shocking events of 9/11, Yasmin's life begins to change; her innate sense of confidence starts to evaporate and she becomes increasingly ostracised at work. Yasmin is only jolted out of her crisis of identity when she witnesses a brutal internment of her husband under the draconian rules of the Anti-terrorism Act. The injustice of this event forces Yasmin to re-evaluate her faith, her culture and her relationships. (Synopsis from Freemantle DVD release of the film)

Posted by Daniela Berghahn on 19 Apr 2006 •

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