Thursday, June 22, 1:00 pm, Castro + streaming encore
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| Coming Around |
“We are here. We are queer. We are Muslim. We are both, relentlessly without contradiction and without apology.” Coming Around follows Eman, an out and proud activist in New York who becomes much more subdued when she goes home to Missouri to visit her traditional Muslim mother. She even starts dating a cisgender man, giving her mother hope that she can get right with God, but will it last? The mother is portrayed in a compassionate and balanced way, devout but not rigid, loving her daughter unconditionally, genuinely and respectfully seeking to understand the issues surrounding her life. It’s a story you haven’t seen before with this level of complexity and nuance. Well worth seeing, highly recommended.
Note regarding subtitles and closed captions: The portions of the dialogue in Arabic, and a few portions of the English dialogue, are subtitled (open captions). There are also English closed captions, but they sometimes conflict. For example, in the Arabic portions, the subtitles give the translation but the closed captions only say “[speaking foreign language],” with the two captions overlapping visually.
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