The Queen of My Dreams Screening

Name: The Queen of My Dreams Screening
Start: 2024-07-10T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 600 Dundas St E, Toronto, ON M5A, Canada

Schedule

Wed Jul 10 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

600 Dundas St E, Toronto, ON M5A, Canada | Toronto, ON

🌟 We’re kicking off Under the Stars with a bang with “The Queen of my Dreams”! 🎬 Join us for a magical movie night as we light up the screen with the sparkling charm of Fawzia Mirza feature debut. Don’t forget your popcorn, bring your friends, and prepare for an unforgettable cinematic journey beneath the starlit sky! ✨🎥
📅 Wednesday July 10th
🕢 Time: Pre-show kicks off at 7:30 pm | Movie starts at sundown (~9pm)
📍 Location: The big park in Regent Park (600 Dundas St E)
Full program and event details at rpff.ca
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.

Dir:
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.
All Under the Stars events are free and open to the public (not ticketed), thanks to your generous donations.
Accessibility:
All films will be open captioned in English.
We provide an Elders and Accessibility seating space. Visit our info desk on the field on the day of the screening or contact [email protected] to reserve accessible seating in advance.
There is a ramp in the park that leads to the field. There will be a padded route on the grass to ensure mobility devices and strollers can navigate easily through the park.