Centerpiece Films

Sheer Qorma is a story of belonging and acceptance, identity and family, and how it comes together under one roof, as resilient, queer Muslim women and non-binary characters of colour, choose to embrace love that exists beyond their personal beliefs and social moralities.

Once entertainers and employees of the royal courts, they were believed to have mystical powers. Today they fight for dignity in life and death. TRANS KASHMIR is a film about the extreme hardships, resilience and beauty of Kashmir’s Hijra (transgender) community and their growing movement for basic human rights.

WILDHOOD
Dir: Bretten Hannam / 99 min / 2021 / Canada / Micmac, English / Narrative Feature / First Feature

In a rural east-coast trailer park, a two-spirited Link lives with their* toxic father and younger half-brother Travis. When Link discovers their Mi’kmaw mother could still be alive, it lights a flame and they make a run for a better life with Travis in their tow. On the road the duo meet Pasmay, a pow wow dancer drawn to Link. As the brothers journey across Mi’kma’ki, Link finds community, identity, and love in the land where they belong.

* They/ Them / Their are the preferred pronouns by Two-spirited persons.

In the 1960s, the hippies championed the idea of a sexual revolution. They received neither Fatwas nor bodyguards. Today, Seyran Ateş – a Turkish- German lawyer, feminist, and one of the first female imams in Europe – is fighting for a sexual revolution within Islam. In return, she was shot, received fatwas and death threats, and now has to live under constant police protection.