Skies Are Not Just Blue (2018)

Directed by

Lysandre Cosse-Tremblay

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

25 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Four young Muslim Canadians who identify as LGBTQ talk about their lives. They describe how they balance parts of their identity that others often see as conflicting.

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What happens

Skies Are Not Just Blue is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Lysandre Cosse-Tremblay and released in 2018. The film profiles four young Muslim Canadians who identify as LGBTQ, and depicts how they navigate holding dual identities that are commonly perceived to be in irreconcilable conflict. The film premiered at the 2018 Festival du nouveau cinéma, where it received an honorable mention from the jury for the Best Canadian Student Film award. It was subsequently screened at the 2019 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where Cosse-Tremblay won the award for Emerging Canadian Artist. The film was also entered into the Iris Prize competition in 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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