Award-winning nonbinary Parsi Indian filmmaker Faraz Arif Ansari is breaking barriers once again with their new film, “Sheer Qorma.”
“I think the film itself is pathbreaking in many ways,” said Ansari, 31, who wrote and directed the short film. “I don’t think a film in this capacity has ever been made in India.”
The film is a 30-minute love story about two queer Muslim women and the love between a mother and daughter; 95% of it was produced and created by women. Swara Bhaskar plays one of the women, Sitara, and Divya Dutta, a trans woman, plays Saira, Sitara’s girlfriend.