Ali's Wedding

Ali's Wedding is director Jeffrey Walker's first feature film, written by Osamah Sami and Andrew Knight, with Sami playing a fictionalized version of himself. The film draws on real events from Sami's 2015 memoir Good Muslim Boy, including how he lied to his family and attended unauthorized classes for a year after failing to get into medical school. Sami's own real life arranged marriage lasted less than two hours. The film has been billed as "Australia's first Muslim romantic comedy." Nominated in seven categories at the 7th AACTA Awards, it won Osamah Sami Best Original Screenplay; it grossed 927,845 dollars in Australia. Who it's for: anyone curious about a film based on its writer's own real arranged marriage and fake enrollment in classes, billed as Australia's first Muslim romantic comedy. Who it's not for: viewers looking for a purely fictional love story, since the film draws directly from the screenwriter's own memoir.