"A self-love story."
It’s 1996. Pooja is a teenage girl with a crush on a white boy, just like the ones in the movies she loves. But having grown up in a mostly Black and Brown neighbourhood, there is a hostile cultural divide between their friends. But, this isn’t a love story – this is a self-love story.
Zaarin Bushra
Pooja
Gurleen Singh
Manpreet
Dulmika Hapuarachchi
Amit
Jesse Nasmith
Trevor
Amanda Catibog
Jaime
Kalyna Fisher
Lainey
Riley James Myers
Derek
Yahya Amin
Rohit
Kumar Kapasi
Pooja's Dad
It’s 1996. Pooja is a teenage girl with a crush on a white boy, just like the ones in the movies she loves. But having grown up in a mostly Black and Brown neighbourhood, there is a hostile cultural divide between their friends. But, this isn’t a love story – this is a self-love story.
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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