Fawzia Mirza's The Queen of My Dreams is a love letter to Bollywood and queerness
The film tells the story of a mother, Mariam, played by Nimra Bucha, and her daughter, Azra, coming of age while exploring the two characters' complicated relationships to their home countries and each other.
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![Amrit Kaur is the star of writer-director Fawzia Mirza's feature film debut The Queen of My Dreams. She plays both Azra, a young Pakistani Canadian woman, as well as a younger version of the character's mother, Mariam, in flashback scenes to 1960s Pakistan. A woman in a yellow dress stands in front of a dresser.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7153006.1711140373!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/the-queen-of-my-dreams.jpg)
The film tells the story of a mother, Mariam, played by Nimra Bucha, and her daughter, Azra, coming of age while exploring the two characters' complicated relationships to their home countries and each other.