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Ash Tailor Zarrar Kahn, whose debut feature “In Flames” premiered at Cannes and later played Toronto, is returning to the festival’s Short Cuts strand with romantic comedy “The Lion Does Not Concern Himself.”
A trailer has been unveiled.
The film follows a likeable gym coach who has convinced himself that his identity as a toxic podcaster is his only route to cultural relevance – until someone walks in as a new client and stays as a love interest. The concept originated with Mohammad Ali Hashmi, the film’s Toronto-based writer and lead actor and a frequent Kahn collaborator, who was struck by the volume of incel propaganda he encountered upon joining a new gym, and by how readily a gym regular could become an Andrew Tate champion.
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