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Title: AE FOND KISS

Reference number: 4460

Date: 2004

Director: d. Ken Loach

Producer: Rebecca O'Brien

Production company: Sixteen Films Ltd.

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: 15

Colour: col

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 104.00 mins

Description: Accountancy graduate turned DJ, Casim meets trainee teacher Roisin O'Connor. Sparks fly and families, cultures and personalities collide.
[synopsis from Scottish Screen Feature Films 2005 brochure]

Subtitled and unsubtitled versions held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Shooting script and cost of production statement also held at National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

See also official website at http://www.iconmovies.co.uk/aefondkiss/ [last accessed 23/4/2010]

Credits: This film is dedicated to the memory of Martin Johnson.

A Sixteen Films Production with Bianca Films, EMC and Tornasol Films in a British/Italian/German/Spansiah Co-production in association with Matador Pictures and Scottish Screen and with the support of Diaphana Distribution Cineart and The Glasgow Film Office

p. designer Martin Johnson
ph. Barry Ackroyd
sd. rec. Ray Beckett
research Kahleen Crawford
1st ass. d. David Gilchrist
costume design Carole K. Millar
line. p. Peter Gallagher
ed. Jonathan Morris
m. George Fenton
co-exec. p. Nigel Thomas
exec. p. Ulrich Felsberg
screenplay Paul Laverty

Casim Khan Atta Yaqub
Roisin Hanlon Eva Birthistle
Tariq Khan Ahmad Riaz
Sadia Khan Shamshad Akhtar
Tahara Khan Shabana Bakhsh
Rukhsana Khan Ghizala Avan
Wee Roddie David McKay
Big Roddie Raymond Mearns
Danny Gary Lewis
Hammid Shy Ramzan
Annie Emma Friel
Elsie Karen Fraser
Headmaster John Yule
Mary Nolan Ruth McGhie
Father David Father David Wallace
Janitor Dougie Wallace
Jacqueline Jacqueline Bett
Amar Pasha Bocarie
Amar's Mother Foqia Hayee
Amar's Father Abdul Hayee
Jasmine Sunna Mirza
Jasmine's Mother Balqees Hassan
Parish Priest Gerard Kelly
Housekeeper Isabel Johnston
Dog Walker Tommy McKee

Shotlist: Casim is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, Casim dreams of buying his own club. His parents Tariq and Sadia are devout Muslims and plan for him to marry his beautiful cousin Jasmine, who is soon to arrive in the UK. Plans go awry when Casim meets Roisin.

A teacher at his sister Tahara's school, Roisin is different from any girl he's ever met. She's gorgeous, intelligent and definitely possesses a mind of her own. She and Casim soon fall deeply in love. But Casim knows all too well that, even if he wasn't due to marry, his parents would never accept a 'goree' - a white girl. As a Catholic, Roisin finds that her own community isn't very supportive either. When their relationship is discovered, the repercussions of the scandal reach far and wide and sparks fly as cultures clash and personalities collide.

Synopsis courtesy of official website at http://www.iconmovies.co.uk/aefondkiss/ [last accessed 16/5/11]