IQMF: Salvation Army / The Last Paradise
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Caught between an authoritarian mother and an older brother, who he adores, Abdellah, a homosexual teen, tries to build his own life iIn a working class neighbourhood in Casablanca.
Salvation Army is screened together with The Last Paradise by Sido Lanzari. After the screening, Abdellah Taia and Sido Lanzari will join the talk Queer Artivism: The Moroccan Perspective.
This is the almost-true story of Sami. In Casablanca, he only dreams about dancing and Egyptian divas in the hairdressing salon where he works. Until the day he meets Daniel, a lover who helps him discover Paris in the midst of a gay revolution.
By mixing archive images and analogue photographs, Sido Lansari draws an intimate portrait of a young man from childhood to exile, where he discovers himself coming from the “last homosexual paradises”.
The Last Paradise is screened together with Salvation Army by Abdellah Taia. After the screening, Abdellah Taia and Sido Lanzari will join the talk Queer Artivism: The Moroccan Perspective.