Amrit Kaur and Fawzia Mirza on celebrating queer Muslim joy in The Queen of My Dreams
As the trailblazing film finally hits digital platforms, Amrit Kaur and Fawzia Mirza speak with Gay Times about bringing The Queen of My Dreams to life. WORDS SAM DAMSHENAS In Fawzia Mirza’s triumphant (and timely) debut feature The Queen of My Dreams, Amrit Kaur delivers a remarkable double performance as Azra, a queer Pakistani-Canadian woman navigating grief and self-discovery after the sudden death of her father, and Mariam, her complex mother whose expectations and cultural pressures shape the fraught dynamics between them. A profound and evocative meditation on identity and family, The…
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