Venus (2017 film)

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| name = Venus

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| image =

| caption = Film poster

| director = Eisha Marjara

| producer = Joe Balass

| writer = Eisha Marjara

| starring = Debargo Sanyal
Jamie Mayers
Zena Darawalla
Pierre-Yves Cardinal
Gordon Warnecke

| music = Patrice Dubuc
Gaëtan Gravel

| cinematography = Mark Ellam

| editing = Mathieu Bouchard-Malo

| studio = Compass Productions

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| released = {{Film date|2017|10|09}}

| runtime = 95 minutes

| country = Canada

| language = English

| budget =

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Venus is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Eisha Marjara and released in 2017.[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/reviews/article-review-venus-is-an-insightful-drama-with-a-big-heart/ "Review: Venus is an insightful drama with a big heart"]. The Globe and Mail, May 17, 2018. The film stars Debargo Sanyal as Sid, an Indo-Canadian who is just beginning to come out as a transgender woman when she unexpectedly discovers that she has a teenage son (Jamie Mayers) with a former high school girlfriend.[https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/venus-transgender-eisha-marjara/ "Venus tackles a transgender story from an immigrant lens"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212021655/https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/venus-transgender-eisha-marjara/ |date=2019-02-12 }}. Now, May 17, 2018.

The cast also includes Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb and Gordon Warnecke.

The film premiered on the film festival circuit in 2017, before going into general theatrical release in 2018.[https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/local-arts/eisha-marjara-forgoes-the-drama-in-transgender-tale-venus "Eisha Marjara forgoes the drama in transgender tale Venus"]. Montreal Gazette, March 2, 2018.