A raw and atmospheric look at a past gay relationship resurfacing during a weekend getaway in Lebanon. With great chemistry between the leads and a script that doesn’t shy away from the messy parts of love, this is a must-watch for fans of grounded queer cinema.
As the city bustles below, Mohammad volunteers for a task that will redefine his destiny. Away from prying eyes, he discovers a space where his inner diva can finally emerge.
A middle-aged tailor and his wife find their relationship turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome new apprentice.
Directed by Maryam Touzani
“Le fil / The String” tells the story of Malik, a gay Franco-Tunisian man who returns to Tunisia and forms a connection with Bilal, a lower-class Arab. They navigate cultural barriers, societal pressures, and the complexities of their relationship while seeking love and acceptance.
Directed by Mehdi Ben Attia
“El Houb” tells the story of Karim, a Moroccan-Dutch man who comes out to his family as gay, and his journey to break the silence and cultural taboos surrounding the LGBTQ+ community in MENA households. The film is a poignant examination of family relationships, love, and acceptance.
Directed by Shariff Nasr
Two young men have escaped persecution in Baghdad. Now separated in the United Kingdom their reunion is dependent upon the remembrance of a sonnet by Shakespeare and a paper boat.
Director: Andrew Steggall
Second-generation Irani-German Parvis works at a refugee shelter where he meets brother and sister Irani refugees and develops a tenuous romance with Amon as his friends attempt refugee status.
Director: Faraz Shariat
When a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.
Director: Saleem Haddad
‘7Th HEAVEN’ follows the everyday life of a young suburban (Sofiane) who does not manage to accept his sexuality described to be deviant by his circle, his family, his fellows and the ghetto where he lives. Sofiane is gay and homophobic, one day riffraff, one night fag, he is lost. He embodies the distress of idle and withdrawn youth through its inconsistency.
A Palestinian student sneaks into Tel Aviv for a taste of freedom and falls for an Israeli lawyer. What starts as a romance turns into a tense thriller where love isn’t a fantasy, it’s a way out.
Director: Michael Mayer
Ensemble film about a rich American couple, a Dutch asocial family, a French gay couple, a German working class family and two illegal Moroccans in Amsterdam.
Written & Directed by Ivo van Hove
n Cadillac Blues (2002), two Lebanese brothers share everything — a home, a car, and a silence full of secrets. Between dreams and confessions, their old Cadillac becomes both a refuge and a prison under the burning Beirut night.
Director: Mazen Khaled
The rapturous debut feature from Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa offers a charged, semi-autobiographical tale about a young graduate who must navigate the sexual, racial, and political intrigue surrounding his arrival in Geneva.
Directed by Abdellah Taïa
Walk on Water (2004) Director: Eytan Fox Writer: Gal Uchovsky (screenplay) Genre:Drama, Thriller Country: Israel, Sweden Language: English,German, Hebrew Duration:103 min Year: 2004
Ibrahim chooses to live with Kevin over marrying his cousin Elif.
Director: Guy Lee Thys, Drama, 2012
Two young soul mates find each other while working at an all-male performance club/brothel. Eventually, one contracts AIDS.
Director: Jean-Claude Schlim
This romantic-kitsch story goes from Paris to Marseille, from Amsterdam to Morocco via Jean Genet’s grave in Larache, and on to Tangiers. The movie tells the story of an Algerian-French heterosexual young man beginning a sociology study of gay islamic homosexualities and discovering gay love with a young French steward.
Ashraf (Yousef “Joe” Sweid), a Palestinian, meets Noam (Ohad Knoller), an Israeli, at a checkpoint station. The pair begin a relationship, and Ashraff moves in illegally with Noam and Noam’s roommates, Lulu (Daniela Virtzer) and Yelli (Alon Friedman). The hip Tel Aviv neighborhood in which they live insulates them from the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Jews, but their protection cannot last forever.
