Starring: Jimi Mistry, Suleka Mathew, Kristen Holden-Ried, Kyle McLachlan
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Running Time: 88 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: 11th February, 2008

Gay, Canadian, Muslim Alim is living in London with his boyfriend, happy to be far away from the expectations of his Islami mother and family. When mum Nuru comes to visit, Alim tries to hide his relationship, but that proves tougher than he thought.

Gay movies are a strange breed, largely because they often try so hard to be resolutely ‘GAY’, that the end result is that nobody, gay or straight, can identify with what they’re seeing (it’s also true that a lot are made by people who shouldn’t have progressed beyond shooting holiday videos). [Read more…]