Edition: 2009

Selected by the Festival: RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2007, Manchester, Great Britain

Year of production: 2006

Country of production: Great Britain

Country Documentary: Great Britain

Duration: 62'

Film: Color

Directed by: Simon Chambers

London. Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hotpants into a saree, to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi family. Shahanara only agreed to the marriage to try and heal old wounds with her father, who had banished her from her family for her Western ways. This is a film about a British Muslim family, made all the more revealing because of the filmmaker’s long standing friendship with them.

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