After Love

After Love (2021) — watch online on iFILM — is a British drama written and directed by Aleem Khan. Mary Hussain (Joanna Scanlan) converted to Islam when she married. Now in her sixties, she has built a quiet life in Dover. Ahmed is steady, present, known. Then he dies, suddenly, and the day after the burial Mary finds his phone.

Across the English Channel, twenty-one miles away in Calais, Ahmed had another family. Mary doesn't break down. She crosses the water. Scanlan carries the whole film in silences and held expressions — no speeches, no easy grief. She took the BAFTA for Best Actress for it in 2022, and you understand why immediately. A small film that goes deep. Stream After Love online on iFILM.