Year of release: 1997
Directed by:
Roberto Bangura
Jackie Jones, a thirteen-year-old teenager of mixed racial origin, is growing up in Leicester in 1972 with her single white mother, who is rather too preoccupied with her own unhappy life to show any interest or affection towards her teenage daughter. When Jackie's sports teacher at school notices that her potential to become an athlete, her life promises to change for the better.
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Filed under: Coming of age | Daughters | Mothers
Year of release: 2000
Directed by:
Fabrice Génestal
At the film's centre are Désiree, an androgynous black woman, and Yasmine, a more conventionally feminine beurette. They vie for the affection of the black gang leader Toussaint, who combines all possible stereotypes of male violence and delinquency, including gang raping young ethnic minority women who inhabit the banlieue, where La Squale is set.
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Filed under: Daughters | Maghrebi French | Mothers | Patriarchy
Year of release: 2000
Directed by:
Ayse Polat
Ayse Polat’s road movie cum coming-of-age film Tour Abroad, which has been compared to Central Station (Walter Salles, Brazil, 1998) and Kolya (Jan Sverak, Czech Republic, 1997) and Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974), sketches the development of a father-daughter relationship between an orphaned eleven-year-old girl and a would-be Turkish drag queen.
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Filed under: Coming of age | Daughters | Fathers | Journey | Mothers | Queer diaspora | Turkish German
Year of release: 1988
Directed by:
Hark Bohm
Yasemin tells the story of a seventeen-year-old Turkish greengrocer's daughter in Hamburg-Altona, whose father Yusuf turns form a loving and reasonably liberal father into a despotic family patriarch when the family honour is violated because his older daughter, Emine, is ostensibly not a virgin when she gets married.
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Filed under: Coming of age | Daughters | Inter-ethnic romance | Patriarchy | Turkish German | Wedding / Marriage
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