Kala
Short
English
mins
12
Virtual
2023
Canada
LGBT, Drama
Kalã is a film about a mother coming to terms with her only son's sexuality through music, dance, and the help of a healing beautician. It is a journey of self-acceptance for a Pakistani mother. The lead is played by Pakistan's superstar actress Bushra Ansari. Kalã is every South Asian mothers warm embrace of their queer child.
Writer/Director/Producer
Arshad Khan
Arshad Khan is a Montreal-based filmmaker. Khan’s internationally acclaimed, award-winning autobiographical documentary Abu (2017) has played at film festivals around the world and won the INSPIRIT Foundation grant for 2018/19. Abu documents his rocky relationship with his father after Khan came out as a gay man. It also chronicles the wider story of young gay people fighting homophobia and invisibility within South Asian and Muslim cultures. Khan is developing two fiction features, FARA and ANYONE BUT HIM about the tribulations of second generation immigrants to Canada.
Director:
Arshad Khan
Producer:
Bobby Bajaj, Arshad Khan
Writer:
Arshad Khan
Cast:
Bushra Ansari
Editor:
Crew:
This Event is supported in part by a Mini Grant from Humanities Texas.
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