JINN trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2018

Summer is undergoing something of a spring awakening, though not all due to her own adolescent yearnings. When her mother, a divorced TV weather forecaster, converts to Islam, Summer’s own sense of self – a high-school senior devoted to sensual dance, not Allah – is left shaken. An ill-advised Instagram post in demure headscarf and revealing underwear (plus infamous ‘HalalHottie’ hashtag) fractures things further. Then there’s the cute guy Tahir at the mosque… Nijla Mumin’s vivid, non-conformist debut explo