briefkasten_asil Yasmin.Yasmin Husseini, a young Muslim woman from Pakistan, lives with her father Khalid, her brother Nazir and her "husband" Faysal in a working-class area in England. At home, she is the Muslim daughter. On the way to work, she is changing clothes, getting into her red car and is off to the Western world. Life works. But with 9/11, things change and Yasmin has to make a decision… The director's intention with the film "Yasmin" was to show people what was really going on after 9/11 in and against Muslims in England and how suspicion and racism, so called Islamophobia, has increased. The movie is about the right to adapting to a different culture without forgetting about where you come from. The impressive thing about the movie is the cruel thing about it at the same time: It is very close to reality. Experiences Muslims made after 9/11 are united in the story of Yasmin and her family. But what makes the film that realistic are not these references only, it is the actor's performances as well as their purity. That is why the audience comes close to the protagonists and their destiny. All in all, "Yasmin" is a film that makes you thinking. Worth seeing!

pia_mail Film Review 'Yasmin'The movie is about a Muslim but rather unconventional woman in her twenties, called Yasmin Husseini, who is torn between two worlds. On the one hand there are the temptations of the western world – being free, being young, having fun – on the other hand she is trying to fulfill the expectations of her traditional family. Even though she loves her family, she is unsatisfied with her situation – arranged marriage, fixed role. The western world offers her an escape when she is going to work or spending time with her friends. Hiding one world from the other she is struggling with her real identity, morals and honesty. After 9/11 the house of cards crashes, and facing prejudices towards her culture Yasmin is forced to take a decision. All in all I think director Kenny Gleenan has done a good job portraying problems of our society: Islamophobia and preoccupation – and also the struggle of a young generation of Muslims having grown up in a western society. The cast is mostly non-professional but that is not a flaw, it even seems to underline the authenticity. I recommend this film because watching this motion picture, the viewer will find a movie which is realistic, moving, funny and – of course – contains a love story.

lilbabyl Lia MarthThe movie "Yasmin" by Kenny Glenaan, produced in 2004 ,tells the story of a young Muslim woman in England. She tries to combine living the new western lifestyle, working in town and seeing an Englisman called John with being a good Muslim daughter to her old religious father. This is not always easy but she has her ways to deal with it. All of a sudden on September the 11th 2001 everything changes. As tension between the western and the Islamic world increases people start to treat Yasmin differently. Because she is Muslim her colleagues make fun of her and she is suspended from work finally . And as if that had not been enough, she gets into trouble with her family, too. The cause of Yasmin's problems with her father is the marriage with Faysal, who she only married on her father's will so that he can get the English citizenship.Yasmin rejects Faysal, and so it is even harder for him to get used to the new culture and circumstances. But not only Faysal has his problems with living in England. Nasir, Yasmin's younger brother has been a drug dealer for quite some time. This might not be the best avocation but with September 11th Nasir's live takes such a rapid turn that one would even figure this job, to be better than what he sees as his philosophy of life then. He meets new people who sway him so extremely that he decides to become part of a fanatic branch. This is the feature of the film that I figure the most impotent. Yasmin is a good example of all the everyday struggle Muslims had to handle in this time. But the story of Nasir is the most touching part of the whole film. It brought tears to my eyes. He decides to go to Palestine. He will most probably kill himself! He is really convinced of all this hatred that he is preached . This is so dramatic to me because he could be every young Muslim having problems in a culture that is not his origin and searching for a sense in life.I recommend this film to everyone who has a good heart and who sympathizes with people that might not have such a good and easy life as most of us Germans do.

falco P. Film review, "Yasmin" 18/03/07 Falco Peisert The British movie – Yasmin -, released in 2004, deals with the life of a Pakistani woman, in Britain, and how the terrorist attacks of 9/11 influence her life.Yasmin suffers from a bogus marriage with her cousin. In addition, her father, a deeply religious person, hinders Yasmin in adopting the western lifestyle, therefore she has to keep secret the way she dresses and behaves.After the terrorist attacks, her life changes completely. She loses colleague's acceptance and becomes a suspect for the police. Because she loses faith in her friends accepting her innocence of the terrorist attacks, she finds back to the Islam and does not reject it any longer. In the end, she has lost her brother, who has become an extremist.The film focuses on Yasmin and her family members.Yasmin's father is strict and religious therefore he cares about the mosque after work. He educates his son Nasir religiously to be a good Moslem. The father thinks a lot about their old home in Pakistan and his wife, therefore he often dreams of old memories but he does not see reality and his daughter's problems. He also condemns his daughter's decision to leave Faysal. The father obviously rejects any hatred against the western culture after the terrorist attacks and he is very sad and deeply disturbed after Nasir's departure to Pakistan.Yasmin is responsible-minded. She accepts her father's view about the Islam, but she wants to be independent. Yasmin is not prejudice against anyone and she is open-minded to British culture. She accepts her responsibility, to care about her family and to adapt to theIslam pattern in her district.In my view, the director wants to show that immigrants can successfully be assimilated tosociety. But that does not mean that prejudices are eradicated. The situation forimmigrants in a society accepting certain cultures can change and that's the point.I would recommend the film because the depicted impacts for immigrants after the terroristattacks are not fictional.