In her documentary Pride & Prayer, Panta Mosleh asks a big question: “Can you be queer and Muslim?”

In the film, the queer and Muslim multihyphenate (filmmaker, writer, producer, actor, comedian) woman opens wide her family’s views on her sexuality, while also presenting the stories and insights from other queer Muslims who know, firsthand, the struggle to square a relationship to God with the religion. Article content Article content

The film will be screening in Vancouver on Nov. 15 at 2:30 p.m. at Scotiabank Theatre as part of the 29th Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF), running Nov. 6 to 16. Article content

“It was just more so the fact of finding, ‘Is there a place for me? And is what I am wrong? Is it OK for me to be me?’ ” said Mosleh about embarking on this docume

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