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The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night (2021) dir. Fawzia Mirza, 11 min.

The film stars Kausar Mohammed as Noor, a queer Muslim woman who brings her Puerto Rican partner Luz (Vico Ortiz) home to a family gathering for the first time. The film was written by Mohammed, partially based on her own life.

“Well, I have two [older] sisters whom I love very, very, much. I also have a partner that I love very much, my girlfriend. The first Christmas that I introduced my partner to my middle sister, everything was great. But being there and having the anxiety of bringing someone you love to meet someone you look up to so much, it had my mind thinking up all these things that could go wrong.  A Taboo game going wrong was one of them, so was a chai battle. That’s how I came up with the idea for this short.” -Kausar Mohammed[x]