ALI & AVA

GB
2021
1hr 35mins
Dir: Clio Barnard
Starring: Claire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar

An English grandmother begins an unusual and secretive relationship with a Muslim man

This sensitive drama features some scenes filmed at Keighley station on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway with the line’s Class 101 Met-Camm DMU forming a ‘contemporary’ train.

Passengers arrive for their train at Keighley station. The Class 101 displays Oxenhope on the destination blind.

Claire Rushbrook stands alone on the platform. The single open door is beckoning for trade.

You can almost smell tthe exhaust fumes. The First Generation DMU departs from Keighley with customary smokescreen.

The arrival scene a little while later was unusually filmed in the evening

Passengers leave the train in this final view of Keighley station at night