With "Yasmin" Kenny Glenaan has created a very moving film, picturing the growing Islamophobia in England after 9/11.
He has established the plot around the young Pakistani woman Yasmin who can hardly manage to combine her western lifestyle with the expectations of her father to be a pious Muslim housewife. Nonetheless she is well-educated and a social worker whereas at home she does the household and does not really have a say. After 9/11 all her colleagues, including her caring friend John, turn away from her and seem to connect Yasmin with Muslim terrorists, although she does not see herself as a traditional Muslim, anyway. Finally her family seems to fall apart, too, after the police have raided their houses.
"Yasmin", as a politically motivated film, is a very realistic respond to the general reactions to the incident of 9/11. In an interview Glenaan said he wanted to give people, especially Muslima, a voice, to what I think "Yasmin" is an impressing solution.
He has established the plot around the young Pakistani woman Yasmin who can hardly manage to combine her western lifestyle with the expectations of her father to be a pious Muslim housewife. Nonetheless she is well-educated and a social worker whereas at home she does the household and does not really have a say. After 9/11 all her colleagues, including her caring friend John, turn away from her and seem to connect Yasmin with Muslim terrorists, although she does not see herself as a traditional Muslim, anyway. Finally her family seems to fall apart, too, after the police have raided their houses.
"Yasmin", as a politically motivated film, is a very realistic respond to the general reactions to the incident of 9/11. In an interview Glenaan said he wanted to give people, especially Muslima, a voice, to what I think "Yasmin" is an impressing solution.