The Queen of My Dreams
SCREENING
At the French Institute:
WED 11/06 ● 10 pm
In 1999 Toronto, lesbian Muslim grad student Azra is happily studying acting and shacking up with her (white, non-Muslim) girlfriend half the globe away from her strictly religious mother Miriam. When her father passes away unexpectedly, Azra returns to Pakistan, her homeland, reliving her childhood memories of growing up in Karachi. Although distance and ideology have driven Azra and Mariam apart, this mother and daughter — seemingly with little in common — forge a new connection at the busy intersection of East and West, past and present. Evoking the colors and spirit of Bollywood musicals, The Queen of My Dreams is a luminous dramedy about the complicated (and often ubiquitous) bonds between mothers and daughters.