Murdered by My Father (2016)

Directed by

Bruce Goodison

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British Asian teenage girl is secretly dating a boy against her family's strict rules. Her father eventually finds out and kills her to protect the family honor.

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What happens

Murdered by My Father is a British drama television film written by Vinay Patel, directed by Bruce Goodison and produced by Toby Welch, and starring Adeel Akhtar and Kiran Sonia Sawar, that first aired on BBC One in March 2016. The drama tells the story of an honour killing of a British Asian Muslim teenage girl by her father. For his performance in the film, Akhtar won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. The film itself won Best Single Drama at the Royal Television Society Awards in 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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