The stars of a new film about young British Muslims, filmed and set in Keighley, turned out last night for its first public screening.

Yasmin was written by Keighley screenwriter and director Simon Beaufoy, who wrote smash hit movie The Full Monty. Filmed in Lawkholme, Keighley, last autumn, Yasmin is about a young Muslim woman, divided between Western society and her traditional culture at home.

The film had a charity screening at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television last night. Its UK premiere will be at the Edinburgh Festival in August.

Mr Beaufoy held workshops with people from Asian communities in Keighley, Bradford and Oldham and used their real-life stories to develop his script, and the film features actors, both professional and non-professional, and crew from the Keighley area.

Yasmin is played by Archie Panjabi, who starred in East is East and Bend It Like Beckham. "I'm not Muslim, but I could identify with Yasmin's search for identity," she said. "She's torn between the modern Westernised society she lives and works in, and traditions at home.

"I met Muslim women in Keighley like Yasmin and this is the first time they've been represented in film as they really are. It's the first character I've played that depicts it as it really is. Yasmin is no victim, she gives as good as she gets. And the film rejects the stereotype that women don't have a say in arranged marriage."

Yasmin, released later this year, is the first feature film funded by Screen Yorkshire, the regional film agency set up to develop the industry in the county.

Producer Sally Hibbin said Keighley was chosen because of its countryside backdrop and compact community.

"In the workshops Asian people told us about their daily lives and how Islamophobia had grown," she said. "What I'm proud of in this film is that it doesn't show overt racism, but tensions building within the community. This is the only film told totally through Muslim eyes."

Mr Beaufoy was unable to attend last night's screening, but speaking beforehand he said: "Everything in the film has happened. I moulded it into one continuous story, centred on one young woman and her family. It's about how September 11 affects Yasmin and the way she's treated, and forces her to re-evaluate her faith and culture.

"The young Muslim women I met were feisty and outspoken. They said they're never properly represented in film.

"It amazed me that here was this population that seemed unknown to film-makers, there's almost no representation of British Asian communities in films. This film is embedded in an Asian community."

l Last night's screening was preceded by a short Bafta-nominated film called Nits starring eight-year-old Odsal Jonathan Mason, who has a heart defect and sight problems.

Jonathan was born with his arteries the wrong way round and underwent a ten-hour heart bypass operation aged ten-days-old. The youngster, who attends Stage 84, developed sight problems while filming Nits last October.