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What Will People Say (Hva vil folk si)
The story tells of a 16-year-old Pakistani girl named Nisha who may live a double life. At home with her family she is the ideal daughter of Pakistan but when she is with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. Things change completely later, where when her father holds her in bed with her boyfriend, things may quite vary. Nisha's parents decided to put it with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has not visited before, Nisha has to adapt to the culture of her parents.
September 28, 1964 in Jammu and Kashmir, India
12 June 1978, Hammerfest, Norway
October 18, 2018
Haq soon levels one torture after another on Nisha, sacrificing nuanced storytelling for blunt force trauma and reducing everyone that isn't Nisha into caricature.August 26, 2018
The credibility of the staging... comes from the precise work of its performers. [Full Review in Spanish]September 17, 2018
[Haq] presents the story in a formulaic, tendentious manner, not allowing its human and ideological complexities to shine through.December 26, 2018
The film's title was chosen with care, because community judgement looms large in this film...October 09, 2018
Mozhdah and Hussain are terrific in the film that tests the audience's tolerance.July 13, 2018
The quiet psychological terror and the simple, blunt manner in which it was shown stole my breath.December 14, 2018
A riveting drama about the toxic energy that fundamentalists can unleash on those they want to control.August 10, 2018
A real-life terror trip but with human ghouls and goblins.July 13, 2018
[A] relentlessly upsetting film.July 12, 2018
A blistering drama about the kind of culture clash that can traumatize a young woman for life.July 19, 2018
As the Norwegian snow gives way to sunbaked Pakistani desert on screen, you'll feel a tug between the awful and the artfulAugust 02, 2018
The movie becomes something more than just another tale of cross-cultural, cross-generational misunderstanding: a harrowing drama of emotional abuse.