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The World Unseen

Rating:PG-13 (for mature thematic material involving sexuality, and violence)
Genre:Romance, Drama
Release Date:November 7, 2008
Running time:94 minutes
Cast:Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Parvin Dabas, Nandana Sen, Grethe Fox
Director:Shamim Sarif
Producer:Daisy Allsop, Aseem Bajaj, Hanan Kattan, Brigid Olen, Katherine Priestley, Vikrant Sharma
Writer:Shamim Sarif
Distributor:Regent Releasing/here! Films

Description: Set in 1950s South Africa at the beginning of apartheid, free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob, her black business partner. When she meets Miriam, a young wife and mother, their unexpected attraction pushes Miriam to question the rules that bind her to a traditional role. As Amina helps Miriam's sister-in-law to hide from the police, a chain of events is set in motion that changes both women forever.

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