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Arifa
Arifa

Arifa

  • 2019 film

Film about a British-Pakistani woman navigating her way through life. Stars Shermin Hassan, Jeff Mirza, Luca Pusceddu, Taru Devani, Shazia Mirza and more.

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Key details

Genre
Film
Released
2019
Stars
Shermin Hassan, Jeff Mirza, Luca Pusceddu, Taru Devani, Shazia Mirza, Nimisha Odedra, Rez Kempton, Zehra Naqvi and more
Writer
Sadia Saeed
Director
Sadia Saeed
Producers
Peter Leslie, Elizabeth Patterson, Mike Whelan and Kevan Peterson
Company

An off-kilter, darkly funny story of a young British-Pakistani woman navigating her way through life, Arifa is a woman still finding her way in the world.

Unlucky in love, things scarcely seem to improve when she becomes entangled with mysterious 'professional gamer' Riccardo. Just like the other men in her life - namely her absentee, bootlegging father Hameed - evasiveness and commitment issues are everywhere. As she unpicks the issues she encounters in her life, helped (or hindered) by her counsellor Shabana, Arifa will find herself growing up, and realising that things don't always turn out as you might expect.

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Additional details

UK certificate
15
Duration
91 minutes
UK release
Friday 28th June 2019
Produced
2017
Production
Location
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Colour

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