I AM SIRAT at TIFF 2023 | Q&A with Deepa Mehta and Sirat Taneja

"The I Am Sirat team at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival during its premiere. Caught between duty and self-determination, Sirat Taneja is a transgender woman who must act as her mother’s son when at home in New Delhi, but can be the woman she really is with her friends and at work with the Government of India. A collaboration between director Deepa Mehta and Sirat, the film has been constructed around Sirat’s lens. Shot on smartphones, Sirat controls her narrative and makes it accessible to us.
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