The World Unseen
About this movie
- Synopsis
- The owner of an apartheid-era Cape Town café experiences an attraction that threatens to change her life forever in director Shamim Sarif's look into a South Asian community in a divided South Africa....
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- Starring
- Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Parvin Dabas, Nandana Sen, David Dennis
- Director(s)
- Shamim Sarif
- Distributor(s)
- Regent Releasing
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 104 min.
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Here! Films gets 'Straight'
09/16/09 Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Shamim Sarif's "I Can't Think Straight." | Variety -
REVIEW | Dull Flame: Shamim Sarif's "I Can't Think Straight"
11/18/08 You would think that a cross-cultural, cross-religious lesbian romance should have enough built-in conflict to sustain an 80-minute feature, but Shamim Sarif 's " I Can't Think Straight " slumps and stretches its way from its first uninspired set piece, an engagement party for Jordanian-Christian Tala ( Lisa Ray ), to its mildly embarrassing closing montage, cut to, natch, Jill Sobule 's "I Kissed a Girl" (hello, 1995!). | indieWIRE -
Opening This Week: Indie superheroes, teen vampires and Russian shysters
11/17/08 Co-director Thavisouk Phrasavath teams up with veteran cinematographer Ellen Kuras to bring his heart-wrenching story to the screen, a film about courage and survival that's been 23 years in the making. | Independent Film Channel (IFC) -
Film Review: The World Unseen
11/10/08 For those unfamiliar with apartheid, The World Unseen illustrates the government-sanctioned racism and sexism of the era by way of a melancholy, intimate story. | The Hollywood Reporter