Queer Screen Film Fest: Margarita, with a Straw

@ Event Cinemas

$19 + bf

A story so rarely seen on screen, Margarita, with a Straw  follows Delhi based University student Laila (a fantastic Kalki Koechlin) on her journey of self-discovery, independence and sexual awakening.

Laila, a talented writer is wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy, but although society and those around her may treat her differently, she never lets it get in her way as she strives to find love, success and a fulfilled life. Living with her close knit family and pining after the cute boy in a band she writes lyrics for, everything changes when she scores herself a scholarship to University in New York. Travelling with her mother, it is there that she meets Khanum, a blind out lesbian of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent who Laila unexpectedly finds herself falling for.

Indian co-writer/director Shonali Bose was inspired by Malini, her super-achiever cousin with cerebral palsy, who when asked what she wanted for her 40th birthday, had simply said she wanted to have sex. From this Bose was determined to tell a story that didn’t short change the thoughts, desires and wants of a woman with cerebral palsy.

Winner of numerous festival awards, including the Audience Award at Frameline in San Francisco, this is a film that shines a light on a character that deserves her story to be told.

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