Don’t miss this truly original film exploring disability, dysfunctional family dynamics and sexual awakening.
UK 1997
Dir Waris Hussein
With Firdaus Kanga, Nina Wadia, Khodus Wadia, Meera Syal
97min
35mm
Certificate 12A
A film of sharp wit with a bold and radical voice, Sixth Happiness is the story of Brit, a boy born into a Parsi community in Bombay in the early 1960s with bones so brittle they would crack at a cough. Waris Hussein’s film, based on lead actor Firdaus Kanga’s own adaptation of his autobiographical novel Trying to Grow, blurs fact and fiction, exploring disability, dysfunctional family dynamics and burgeoning sexual awakening in a story that thrillingly defies both stereotype and expectation.
The screening on Friday 7 July features a Q&A with director Waris Hussein.