EAST IS EAST
Director: Damien O´Donnell
Feature film | GB | 1999
95 min
33rd Hof International Film Festival
1999
For the seven kids of George Khan – proud Pakistani and chip shop owner – life is one long compromise. Tomboy Meenah prefers playing footie to wearing a sari, hippie Saleem pretends to be studying engineering when he’s really at art school, heart-throb Tariq has got a reputation as a local Casanova, and Sajid hasn’t even been circumcised yet …