Directed by
2004
Yasmin is a young woman of Pakistani origin living in northern England. Yasmin rejects the culture of her native country. She lives between two worlds, at night behaving as a proper daughter in her father’s home where she is married in name only to her recently arrived cousin, and by day changing in and out of her traditional clothes and head scarf in her car as she goes to and from work. After 9/11 the increasing harassment by her work colleagues, the arbitrary arrest of her husband as a suspected terrorist and her experiences with the police in trying to contact her arrested husband all combine to destabilize her carefully balanced Asian, Muslim, British identity. (Lavinia Mohr)