Fluorescent Sin

Name: Fluorescent Sin
Director: Amirah Tajdin
Released: 2011-09-16
Cast: Telley Savalas Otieno, Alice Halakuba

2011 · 8 min

A poetic short that chronicles a drag queen having a nervous breakdown at a train station in an African city.

Directed by Amirah Tajdin

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