Due to inclement weather, this screening was rescheduled from July 10 to July 31.
Thank you to everyone who came to our screening of The Queen of My Dreams!
Photography by Akkie Mae and Joy Adeyemi
Pre-Show:
The party starts before the movie! Join us on the field at 7:30pm not only just to snag a good seat, but also for family-friendly activities and fun. Lay your blanket down, secure your popcorn, and relax until show starts!
About the film
dir. Fawzia Mirza | Comedy/Romance | 1h 37 min | PG | 2023
Synopsis
Following the sudden death of her father, queer Pakistani woman Azra (Amrit Kaur) leaves her home in Canada to travel to Pakistan. She soon finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories real and imagined—from her conservative mother’s (Nimra Bucha) youth in 1960s Karachi to her own coming of age in rural Nova Scotia. Fawzia Mirza’s stylish feature debut mashes up the textures of Indian cinema and a Canadian coming-of-age picture, tracing key moments in the lives of a mother and daughter born three decades apart.
Director bio
Fawzia Mirza (she/they) is a queer, South Asian, Muslim writer and director born in London, Ontario and raised in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Fawzia’s directorial feature debut THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS, shot in Canada and Pakistan, world premiered at TIFF 2023. The film was nominated for 5 Canadian Screen Awards in 2024, shortlisted for the Director’s Guild of Canada’s 2023 Jean Marc Valée Discovery Award, and named as one of ‘Canada’s Top Ten’ by TIFF in 2023.
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