Away from the glitz and glamour of the red carpet, there were quite a few poignant, touching moments on the opening night of the Yellowstone International Film Festival on Friday evening. Faraz Arif Ansari’s award-winning short Sheer Qorma was clearly the highlight of the night. Another film that drew applause and awards at the opening night of YIFF was the …
Film Director Faraz Arif Ansari today took to Twitter to allege that he has been receiving death threats after he called out Islamists for their homophobic tweets under #WhySoProud hashtag earlier this week. — Faraz Arif Ansari July 2, 2020 He said that the Islamists have threatened to throw him off the roofs, stone him and punish him until he …
There were two things that Faraz Arif Ansari was always sure of — one, that they wanted to be a filmmaker, two, they was queer. Faraz Arif Ansari made India’s first silent LGBTQ love story in 2017. That is the power of cinema,” shares the filmmaker who counts world cinema legends Wong Kar Wai, Pedro Almodovar, Pier Paolo Pasolini and …
