LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: The Healing, by Tala Motazedi
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A queer Iranian woman in Toronto becomes haunted by a malevolent jinn, unleashed through her devout mother’s supernatural attempts to 'heal' her, forcing her to confront deep-seated familial trauma and an ancient force threatening to consume her identity and life.
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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Aunt: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Zahra: Hannah Ehman
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