Sending a big THANK YOU to Frameline for an incredible U.S. premiere of Sandra Itäinen’s groundbreaking documentary COMING AROUND! We couldn't have asked for a better festival to celebrate this important milestone in our film's journey. Let's keep centering and celebrating queer muslim voices in our LGBTQIA communities! ❤️🏳️🌈🎬
Now through July 2nd, you can watch COMING AROUND virtually in Frameline's Digital Screening Room: 👉 https://bit.ly/41P8jld
📷 Photos: Zach Franzen for Frameline
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I have watched horror movies and read Stephen King novels that were less upsetting than this quote.
This cannot keep happening.
It just can’t.
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i hate propaganda films include the kerala story made money for bjp
you know at this point i think we are absolutely incapable of making films about organised crime without simultaneously, and needlessly dragging and targeting our muslim people and communities. it is very clear that these people making all these films about Islamic terrorism be it The Attacks of 26/11 or Kashmir Files or now with The Kerala Story, don't know shit about Islamic teachings or discipline at all. nor do they want to. all these so called 'documentary films' do is create deceitful perceptions and resultant discrimination against Muslims not only in India but everywhere. they're just all trying to slowly achieve this Purist Hindu Nationalist agenda where anything even slightly not in accord with Hinduism is deemed violent and insanitary for the nation's religious health. and any state, which is Kerala in this case, that tries to sustain diversity that in any way involves Islamic identities positively is ostracised and made into a cautionary tale. "do not be like this state. do not let islamism prevail." where actually, kerala has drastically been able to reduce its ISIS recruitments according to this post and is not even among the top five ISIS targets anymore.
this is incorrect and exaggerated portrayal and extremely, extremely dangerous especially when a large part of its demographic is desperate to prove, hungry for blood hindus who will charge at anything without looking left or right. injuring the rights and trampling on the voices of our muslim communities and people by shadowing their entire religion under the cloud of terrorist activities is burning an irreparable hole into the minds of our youth, especially our hindu youth, who may go on to amplify such behaviour.
i've heard my cousin sister telling her friends that her mom doesn't like this part of the town because it's mostly muslim people over here and that she shouldn't make friends with muslim people because they kidnap girls and take them to some place bad. and she is eight years old. i have heard my one of my peers whining about how her train compartment was mostly muslim people and she felt unsafe without her hindu friends there. this is the state of our children and adoloscents right now. they don't know what inflation is but they already have a political aversion towards a certain religious group. and while i can still interrupt and correct these two people for their inane, secondhand remarks, i can not convince the rest 750 crore something people. but the anti-muslim and anti-islam propaganda can and is reaching all of those people thanks to the widespread and accepted medium of film and cinema.
which is fucking terrifying.
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If you guys liked the Muslim immigrant family drama aspect of Ms Marvel but didn't care for the superhero stuff, I highly recommend the movie Ali's Wedding!
This is based off of Osamah Sami's autobiography, Good Muslim Boy. He also wrote the screenplay and starred in the movie.
The movie is about Ali, an Iraqi Australian immigrant. His dad is a beloved imam at their local mosque and he feels the pressure of studying medicine when he really wants to act and go into film. Also he totally screws up and is a total disaster. It's very touching and personal comedy drama, and the relationship between father and son is the best part even though its marketed as a rom-com.
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A24 Ramy "Sufi Center of North Jersey" Hat
All proceeds were donated to the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, supporting racial justice in the Muslim community.
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Sandra Itäinen's documentary COMING AROUND is headed to San Francisco this Thursday for its U.S. Premiere, screening at the Castro Theatre at 1pm as part of Frameline 47. (online from 06/24-07/02)
Get tickets: 👉 https://bit.ly/41P8jld
In anticipation of its premiere, check out some of the recent press and interviews:
Queer Guru review by José Mayorga :: link ::
Gay Sonoma's Gary Carnivele interviews Sandra Itäinen :: link ::
Celluoid Dreams' Tim Sika interviews Sandra Itäinen :: link ::
13th Gen’s Marc Smolowitz is proud to be an Executive Producer of COMING AROUND.
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Ponytail hairstyles are known to be practical, but they can also be sexy. Sweeping strands away from the face but letting lengths hang free gives a youthful
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