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• Berlin EFM 2020 (Debut)

Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : Reem MORSI
Writer(s) : Bryan MARK
Producer(s) : Ingrid VENINGER (PUNK FILMS INC.), Shant JOSHI (Fae Pictures)

Following the death of his mother, a local seamstress from Cairo, NABIL HADDID, a 17-year-old Egyptian moves to Toronto to live with his estranged father, an eminent international architect.
Pushed by Iskander to embrace and discover the city that his parents once shared, Nabil wanders Toronto trying to connect with his mother's favorite places. Losing his way home, Nabil lands at an underground drag bar. Having never experienced this world before and confident in his heterosexuality, Nabil’s senses are overloaded by the queer oddities of the nightclub. Though he may not identify with the community, he soon finds an affinity with their rebellious nature.
Nabil ends up finding a friend in an older, low-income trans drag queen, MALIBU. Nabil enlists Malibu to teach him how to sew the magnum opus dress that his mother never finished before passing. As Malibu mentors Nabil, the two become closer and when the dress is complete Malibu challenges Nabil to wear it. Nabil outright refuses, worrying that he would never belong in the world of drag. But Malibu does not relent and soon enough teaches Nabil the ways of drag, ushering in Nabil’s alter ego, Queen Tut.