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Many histories in Voices describe trying to fit in, adjust to their new surroundings, and find acceptance when immigrating to Calgary while also being constantly othered, navigating social, geographic...

The inclusion of the humpback whale in Voices offers a blurring of human and non-human, encouraging a multi-species perspective on the violence of borders and boundaries. Micro-biomes, plants, fungi,...

*Kristen Hutchinson (KH):* What brought you to tell this story?  *Fawzia Mirza (FM):* Well, it has its roots in a short film that I made that world premiered in 2012...

*KH:* How does your film embrace lesboqueer joy, instead of the typical “bury your gays” trope that we so often see in film and TV?  *FM:* Well, I think for...

So it was a remarkable experience across the board, working with these incredible actors, Amrit Kaur [Azra, the protagonist] and Hamza Haq [Hassan, her father] and Nimra Bucha [Mariam, her mother],...