Habibti, My Love

Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen (DK)
Genre: Fiction
Denmark, 2002 / 30 min (35 mm), colour & sound

The Film
Without the knowledge of her family or friends, 24-year-old Zahra, a medical student born in Pakistan, is passionately involved with a 27-year-old fellow student, Mads. She regularly tells people she is on duty in the Accident and Emergency ward, but in fact spends the night at Mads’, while making sure she gets home early enough to get breakfast for her father and younger brother. However, one morning Zahra’s relationship with her family becomes extremely acute as her secret life is accidentally revealed.

Pernille Fischer Christensen
Pernille Fischer Christensen (b. 1969 in Copenhagen, Denmark) graduated with the film India from the Danish Film School in 1999. Her films are Poesie Album, SFC (1994), Pigen som var søster and Honda Honda (1994-1996) and Habibti my Love (2002). Her next work is a feature called The Soap and is to be shot this spring.

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