Oct 2: The Queen of My Dreams

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Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024
7 pm @ Galaxy Cinemas, Sault Ste. Marie, ON

Director: Fawzia Mirza
Canada 2024
English, Urdu; 97 min
Rated: PG

Azra, a Pakistani woman living in Toronto, is worlds apart from her conservative Muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Pakistan, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined, from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming-of-age in rural Canada. 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.

This peppy first feature by Fawzia Mirza has a boisterous energy and toe-tapping use of music reminiscent of Maryam Keshavarz’s similarly themed, Sundance audience award-winning The Persian Version.
Wendy Ide, Observer (UK)

Kaur really is the film’s revelation: her Azra is funny, spiky and gloriously unruly. Cath Clarke
Guardian