Those thick Glaswegian brogues springing from the mouths of second-generation Pakistani immigrants says more about the wide diversity of the world's Muslim population that the schoolroom speech that opens this typically earnest, socially conscious film from Ken Loach. The talk is delivered by Sadia Khan (Shamshad Akhtar), a high-school aged Pakistani-Scot who's attempting to explain to her Catholic schoolmates that Islam wears many faces, and not all Muslims should be lumped together. Sadia's father, Tariq (Ahmad Riaz), who runs the corner shop, has been in Scotland for 40 years, and Sadia considers herself not so much a Muslim as a Glaswegian teenager and a big socc...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins