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Shorts2Features: Signature Move

Shorts2Features: Signature Move

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Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival 2017

Film

Please note: This was screened in Sept 2017

Director
Jennifer Reeder
Cast
Fawzia Mirza, Shabana Azmi, Sari Sanchez
Details
82 mins, 2017, USA

Signature Move is a hilarious and heartfelt look at modern families and the complexities of love in its many forms. Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza) is a thirty something Pakistani, Muslim, lesbian lawyer living in Chicago who begins a new romance with Alma (Sari Sanchez), a confident and vivacious Mexican American woman. Zaynab’s recently widowed mother Parveen (Shabana Azmi) has moved in and spends her days watching Pakistani TV dramas while searching for a potential husband for her only daughter. Alma’s mother, Rosa (Charin Alvarez), is a former professional Luchadora which Zaynab finds fascinating as she has recently taken up lucha style wrestling training with a former pro wrestler, Jayde. Zaynab tries to keep both her love life and her wrestling a secret from her Muslim mother, who knows more than she lets on.

Signature Move is a comedy that celebrates the many faces of the US at a time when stories of diversity and acceptance are needed more than ever. It’s a wild, vibrant, and very American mix of cultures, generations and wrestling.


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