YES on NPR

Sally Potter’s most recent film YES featured in a discussion on US National Public Radio’s (NPR) Morning Edition on the 4th February. Valentino's Sheik: An 'Other' Made to Swoon talked about the 1921 silent film The Sheik, based on Edith Maude Hull’s fictional novel of the same name.

Simon Shaheen, a Palestinian musician and lecturer, spoke of YES, saying that he hadn't seen a feature film challenging the notions of love and ethnicity put forth in The Sheik until three years ago, when YES was released.

"I think it's interesting to point out it took nearly a century to see a man from the Middle East honestly loving an American woman," says Shaheen.

Read the full article and listen to the show online at NPR’s website.