Poster IQMF:  Soura Film Fest - Queer Stories from the MENA Region

    IQMF: Soura Film Fest – Queer Stories from the MENA Region

    Tickets for International Queer & Migrant Film Festival are sold through their website.

     

    SOURA FILM FEST is a queer film festival focused on the Middle East and North Africa region. These are their personal cherry pickings:

     

    Marco

    Dir. by Saleem Haddad, Drama, UK, 2018, 22 min.
    Language: English / Arab, subtitles in English

    When banker Omar invites the Spanish student and sex worker Marco into his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past and one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises.

     

    Reset

    Dir. by Ali Shams, Drama, Iran, 2019, 16 min.

    Language: Persian, subtitles in English

    Meet Sara, a transgender female. Sara has recently had sex reassignment surgery and she has not yet received her new ID card. While in financial problems this means she cannot cash her check at the bank.

     

    Chromophobia

    Dir. by Bassem Ben Brahim, Animation, Tunisia, 2019, 6 min.

    No language

    Vibrant, musical animation of the life of a homosexual boy, his childhood, his first love and his fights with his family, society and the law while he defends his freedom with his life.

     

    Breakup in 9 Scenes

    Dir. Leil Zahra Mortada, Experimental drama, Germany, 2017, 14 min.

    Language: English

    Set against a backdrop of Berlin this is the story of a couple that has fallen apart after their country fell apart.

     

    You Deserve Everything

    Dir. Goran Stolevski, Drama, Australia, 2019, 18 min.
    Language: English / Arabic
    Subtitles: English

    A doctor’s tentative romance with the hospital’s Arabic interpreter is evolving into something deeper. But everything is not as it seems.


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