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HALAL FOR BEGINNERS

By Conor MCDERMOTTROE

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Drama - Completed 2017

Semi-based on true events this warm-hearted culture-clash comedy about Ireland’s first Halal meat factory tells the story of young Muslim Raghdan Aziz trying to find his place in the world of small town Sligo. While managing a rundown abattoir, he stumbles through cultural chaos and generational con

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- IRELAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Conor MCDERMOTTROE
- Synopsis
- Raghdan Aziz, a young man of British-Indian Muslim heritage, is happy in his new home on the west coast of Ireland. This beach-fronted retreat is the perfect getaway from his controlling father. He has escaped the burden of his legacy and discovered a new sense of community. Living with his adoring aunt and uncle, Raghdan hangs out with his surf buddies Derek and Neville and has mapped out a future with girlfriend, Maeve Logan. On Raghdan's 21st birthday, his father Amir arrives from England with the gift of a run-down meat factory. How will Raghdan cope with this poisoned chalice of a present - a career opportunity that he never wanted? Can he resolve differences with Maeve's uppity father, Martin? Can he heal the growing rift between himself and Maeve and overcome a potential love rival in the form of Jasper? What happens when the community, that had accepted him as one of its own, turns against him?