BFI Amplified: East is East

97 mins · 1999 · UK · Cert 15 · English
Screening as part of BFI Amplified; a series of 5 films at Fabrica celebrating the stories, sounds and reverberations set in motion through contemporary youth voices, histories and subcultures. Programmed to run alongside our autumn exhibition _One Song_ by Kadir Karababa.
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father’s rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.