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Watch anytime between September 11-21. A pregnancy that rewrites the household. A 29- year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist building something together. A daughter asking her father why he left. A queer couple cooking lunch for a skeptical mother. A father whose love never once flinched. These films are about the families we’re born into, the ones we build, and the work it takes to hold any of them together.
For Indian Pakistani American Khalid Quraishi, his daughter Zunaira’s announcement that she was ready to marry the woman of her dreams was a joyous, even miraculous, occasion. Having lived through the Partition, persecution, and the harrowing threat of nearly losing Zunaira to illness, Khalid never once doubted what his Muslim faith had taught him to believe was most important of all: his love for his family.
- Year2025
- Runtime0:16:46
- LanguageEnglish, Urdu
- CountryUnited States
- GenreDocumentary
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish Open Captions
- Content WarningFear of family rejection due to homophobia/organized religion, Mention of cancer and limb loss
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- DirectorElena Chang
- ScreenwriterGene Wang
- ProducerElena Chang, Aries Liao, Suma Reddy, Constance Sng
- CastKhalid Quraishi, Zunaira Khalid, Ebony Bates
Watch anytime between September 11-21. A pregnancy that rewrites the household. A 29- year-old trans musician and a 79-year-old lesbian archivist building something together. A daughter asking her father why he left. A queer couple cooking lunch for a skeptical mother. A father whose love never once flinched. These films are about the families we’re born into, the ones we build, and the work it takes to hold any of them together.
For Indian Pakistani American Khalid Quraishi, his daughter Zunaira’s announcement that she was ready to marry the woman of her dreams was a joyous, even miraculous, occasion. Having lived through the Partition, persecution, and the harrowing threat of nearly losing Zunaira to illness, Khalid never once doubted what his Muslim faith had taught him to believe was most important of all: his love for his family.
- Year2025
- Runtime0:16:46
- LanguageEnglish, Urdu
- CountryUnited States
- GenreDocumentary
- Subtitle LanguageEnglish Open Captions
- Content WarningFear of family rejection due to homophobia/organized religion, Mention of cancer and limb loss
- Social Media
- DirectorElena Chang
- ScreenwriterGene Wang
- ProducerElena Chang, Aries Liao, Suma Reddy, Constance Sng
- CastKhalid Quraishi, Zunaira Khalid, Ebony Bates