April 16, 2023 at 10:00:00 PM
AFS Cinemas
Polite Society
UK | Narrative Feature
2022 | 103 min | Hindi
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival 2023, SXSW '23
Polite Society is a London-set anarchic action comedy that follows Ria Khan, a schoolgirl and martial artist-in-training who dreams of becoming a world-renowned stunt woman.
When Ria witnesses her big sister Lena give up on her dreams by dropping out of art school and getting engaged, Ria’s world is shaken. She believes she must save her sister from the shackles of marriage in the only way she knows how, by enlisting the help of her friends and attempting the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of freedom and sisterhood.
Polite Society is a merry mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment, and bold and bloody action.
About the Artist
Nida Manzoor is a British filmmaker who wrote, directed, and created all the original music for her
series WE ARE LADY PARTS, which premiered on Peacock/Channel 4 in 2021. The series is an irreverent musical comedy following an all-female Muslim punk band, told through the eyes of a geeky Ph.D. student who is reluctantly recruited to be their lead guitarist.
WE ARE LADY PARTS has been nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award, and an Indie Spirit Award, and won a 2022 Peabody Award and the 2022 BAFTA Award for 'Best Comedy Writer'.
Manzoor’s debut feature with Focus Features and Working Title, POLITE SOCIETY, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Trailer
Credits
Director:
Nida Manzoor
Writer:
Nida Manzoor
Producer(s):
Film Editor:
Priya Kansara
Ritu Arya
Renu Brindle
Rekha John-Cheriyan
Seraphina Beh
Ella Bruccoleri
Sally Ann
Shona Babayemi
Nimra Bucha
Akshay Khanna
Shobu Kapoor
Jeff Mirza
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This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
