Ali's Wedding

Ali's Wedding is a 2017 Australian romantic comedy feature film from Matchbox Pictures. It is directed by Jeffrey Walker and written by Osamah Sami and stars Helana Sawires, Don Hany and Robert Rabiah

After a reckless lie sets off a catastrophic chain of events, Ali (Osamah Sami), son of a Muslim cleric (Don Hany), finds himself caught between his sense of duty and following his heart – to follow through with his arranged marriage, or be with the girl he loves.

Ali is the charming and musically-talented son of a Muslim cleric but, despite the best of intentions, he struggles to make the right life choices. He wants to be with the girl he loves, but he's been promised to another girl at his father's mosque. He wants to be the great doctor that the community expects him to be, but he doesn't get the marks. And above all he wants to make his father proud. To live up to these impossible expectations, he lies about his academic achievements, and then his quest to please his father spirals out of control, with amusing and poignant consequences.

Sami has been quoted as saying that the film is "history making, the first Muslim rom-com, so it's going to hopefully pave the way for many other similar stories, not just from the Muslim community but from other communities and minorities in our society." He said that the "affectionate and poignant story of love" was trying to cast a more positive light on Muslim-Australian life.

Ali's Wedding was released at the Sydney Film Festival on 8 June 2017.

The film had its world premiere at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2016.

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