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Through a tapestry of narratives composed of family footage, observation and classic Bollywood films, gay-identifying Pakistani-Muslim filmmaker Arshad Khan takes viewers through the tense relationships between family and fate, conservatism and liberalism and modernity and familiarity. "Hidden within the cabinets of my parents homes, from Lahore to Mississauga, are an enormous archive of family films capturing the days of my youth and teenage-hood. As I sat to write a film about a Pakistani immigrant girl with magical powers living in Mississauga, another story kept interrupting the narrative: it was the story captured on those tapes, it was the story of my family, my youth and my "abu". My father had recently passed at the time I began crafting this film, while I was awaiting funds for the fiction work that was consistently being put on the back-burner while I delved into the VHS tapes of my families histories. I kept the slow wane of time in mind as the fragments of narrative of my family began to unfold before more eyes." Writer/ Director/ Producer - Arshad Khan Editor - Etienne Gagnon Producer - Sergeo Kirby Loaded Pictures Executive producer - Miguel Jimenez Music Composer - Michael Robert Snow Sound Designer - Sylvain Bellemare Animation - Davide Di Saro WINNER Best Documentary Kingston ReelOut Film Festival WINNER Audience Award Florence River To River Indian Film Festival WINNER Audience Award Image + Nation Montreal LGBTQI Film Festival WINNER Jury Prize - TWIST Seattle Film Festival WINNER Best Feature - Vancouver International South Asian Film Festival WINNER Jury Prize - aGLIFF Austin LGBTQI Film Festival WINNER LGBTQI Crusader of the year - Anokhi Magazine WHERE IS ABU HEADED NEXT? 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