I Am Nasrine

Simple and beautiful treatment of the conflicts and challenges facing those who must leave their own country to find a new home, centred on two young people arriving in a region of the UK, and a community, seldom encountered in film. A fil of great honesty, by a filmmaker of integrity, with superb performances by the young principals.

Fantastic. This is the story of Ali and Nasrine coming to the UK and building a life for themselves. This is what film should be. Finally saw the film after following it for a while and it blew me away. I cried my eyes out. I could not recommend this enough. See it. Saw it at the local cinema and so much echoed of my own experience. This is a film with real soul and depth. If you get a chance go and see it. This should be taught in all schools everywhere. This is not a film that you will regret seeing. Apparently I need to write 10 lines! All I want to say is: See it! See it! See it!!! See it!!!See it!!!See it!!!See it!!!See it!!!See it!!!

I remember watching this film at the Brooklyn Film Festival back in 2012 and it completely blew me away. To this day, I find it to be one of the most moving and nuanced films about immigrant communities whose stories often go underrepresented in mainstream media. I couldn't recommend watching this film enough.

A powerful examination of life and love in the face of immigration and the unique, lived experience of Nasrine and her husband. Tina Gharavi has a sure, confident and deft hand in the director's chair. It is hard to believe this is her debut. I cried genuine tears of sympathy, empathy and hope. If people could just take a single moment to examine the lives of people as they flee the only home they've ever known to come to a place and experience systemic prejudice and injustice, maybe things would improve for all concerned. Everyone has a story. Everyone has pain. Not everyone can reach outside of themselves and acknowledge another's challenges. "I Am Nasrine" gives us that unique perspective. Watch this movie and be Nasrine. It will change your life.

I am greatly impressed by a film which conveys such a strong message on so many levels: it portrays the problems faced by Iranians fleeing from the injustices and denial of human rights that they experience in their own country and the added difficulties they face when trying to make their way in the UK especially against a background of enforced illegal working and hostility; it demonstrates how much more we as a society could do to try to understand why asylum seekers come to the UK, from what they are fleeing, to understand that they are human beings just like us with the same aspirations and wants; it manifests the differences in cultural norms between societies and examines sensitively this in particular through Nasrine's and her brother's awakening sexuality and, in the case of the former, how easily that can be blighted by previous rape and brutality; it gives a wonderful insight into part of the culture and everyday experience of many people in the North East â€" their warmth and welcome but also their prejudice and parochialism; above all it shows the dangers of just growing up as teenagers in an unfamiliar culture far from home and the comfort zone of one's own familiar norms and family. We are all much more thoughtful and potentially better people for the insights this film gives â€" it is for each of us to learn from or ignore the messages, so powerful if we can experience the former.

Keith Best Chief Executive Freedom from Torture : Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture