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- 2018
- Not Rated
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 32 m
- 2018
- Not Rated
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity.
Directed By: Nijla Mumin
Written By: Nijla Mumin
- 2018
- Not Rated
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 32 m
- 2018
- Not Rated
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 32 m
Jinn
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Summary Summer is a 17-year old carefree black girl, whose world is turned upside down when her mother, a popular meteorologist named Jade Jennings, abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person, prompting Summer to reevaluate her identity.
Directed By: Nijla Mumin
Written By: Nijla Mumin
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
75
89% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Jinn is a familiar story, told in a cultural context rarely depicted on film, and Mu’min’s approach is so lyrical and empathetic that it feels completely fresh and new. It’s a remarkable film with sensitive and stirring turns by Renee and Missick in the mother-daughter roles.
Jinn is the rare coming-of-age story that doesn’t simply pat kids on the head and tell them they just need to love themselves. Instead, Mu’min holds her characters accountable for the way they discombobulate each other’s lives, while giving them the space to do better, if they can figure out what better is.
Jinn may end a little too neatly after challenging so many of the conventions of its genre, but it’s easy enough to look past.
There’s nothing preachy about Jinn, even though Nijla Mu’min’s elegant debut feature is about a teenager coming to terms with her mother’s newly embraced religion.
For the most part, Mu’min’s script is pleasantly inquisitive, and its refusal to arrive at easy answers is its engine. Jinn is a special little film, one that never lets its complicated, contradictory characters become abstractions, but instead revels in all the disparate elements that make them who they are.
At a time when Islam has become weaponized as a synonym for ISIS, we need glimpses at its positivity and humanity. That doesn’t mean Mu’min sanitizes things (a lot happens that could reinforce reductive stereotypes of social conservatism and familial oppression), only that she’s creating healthy representations at once relatable, laudable, and flawed. Nothing is black and white.
Jinn consistently lets down its premise and performers with a by-the-numbers-at-best screenplay that triple-underlines all of its forward-thinking themes.
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Production Company
Sweet Potato Pie Productions,
Morgan's Mark,
Confluential Films,
Foundation for Ethnic Understanding,
Screen Lloyd
Release Date Nov 16, 2018
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline A shape-shifting, pepperoni- loving, black teenage instagram celebrity converts to Islam. Here's what happens.
Awards
Black Reel Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
American Black Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
