This was my first ever film festival watch (shoutout to Cincinnati’s Over-The-Rhine International Film Festival) and I honestly could not have asked for a better one.
To call it liberating feels like an understatement. I genuinely had to hold back tears several times because it really felt like I was watching my own relationship with my mom play out on screen. While this could have easily been super triggering and hard to watch, director Fawzia Mirza handled these intensely painful…