Carole Horst “Unicorns” explores a world not seen much in feature films — the world of “gaysians,” the South Asian gay community in the U.K.
The film, directed by Sally El Hosaini (“The Swimmers”) and James Krishna Floyd and written by Floyd, follows Aysha/Ashiq (charismatic newcomer Jason Patel) a queer, Muslim, South Asian drag queen living a double life who sparks a friendship then romance with white, straight mechanic and single father Luke (“Eastenders’ ” Ben Hardy, equally charismatic).
The film bowed to rave reviews at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales at AFM.“Unicorns” is El Hosaini and Floyd’s third collaboration. “I think mainstream society is very good at lumping very reductive identity labels on all of us.
Obviously, in terms of sexuality, but I think in terms of everything in terms of race and gender and I’ve always felt that these things are very gray and very fluid.
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