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Title: YASMIN

Reference number: 6846

Date: 2004

Director: [d. Kenneth Glenaan]

Sponsor: [ Parallax Independent, EuroArts Medien AG (co-production), Parallax Ltd.]

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 87.00 mins

Description: Superb, hard-hitting second feature from former Michael Powell Award winner (Gas Attack, EIFF 2001)

Written by Simon (The Full Monty, This Is Not A Love Song) Beaufoy, and developed out of months of research and workshops with Muslim communities across the North of England, this timely drama tells the story of a British Muslim woman who finds herself caught up in a post-September 11 nightmare, when her Pakistani-born husband is falsely imprisoned as a terrorist suspect. Addressing such universal themes as racial prejudice and the conflicts between national and religious identities, Yasmin is also shot through with a peculiarly Northern wit – alert to the many ironies which befall those who consider themselves British, Asian and Muslim.
[summary taken from Edinburgh International Film Festival website 2005. Link no longer live]

Dialogue script also held by National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Credits: w. Simon Beaufoy

Cast (in credits order)
[Archie Panjabi .... Yasmin Husseini
Shahid Ahmed .... Faysal Husseini
Steve Jackson .... John
Syed Ahmed .... Nasir
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Gary Lewis .... Police Chief
Renu Setna .... Khalid]

CREW
[p. Sally Hibben
co-p. Jonathan Olsberg
orig. m. Stephen McKeon
cinemat. Tony Slater-Ling
film ed. Kristina Hetherington, Tina Hetherington
casting Victoria Beattie
p. design Jason Carlin
art d. Sami Khan
costume design Carole K. Millar
post-production manager Michael Reuter
production buyer Duncan Wheeler
sd. Stuart Bruce
sd. ed. Christian Conrad, Dominik Kehl
boom operator Tony Cooper, Richard Finney
sd. ass. Rowan October
location man. Leon Ballin
p. coordinator Julie Connor
on-line ed. Philipp Großmann
location man. Luc Webster]

Shotlist: Reel 1
19.42 mins. 1,774ft

Reel 2
17.13 mins. 1,550ft

Reel 3
20.23 mins. 1,835ft

Reel 4
15.58 mins. 1,437ft

Reel 5
13.29 mins. 1,214ft