EL HOUB (THE LOVE)
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AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY OCT 13-23
EL HOUB (THE LOVE)
Shariff Nasr; 2022; The Netherlands; 102 min.
Karim, a successful Moroccan-Dutch businessman, is so caught up in his panic about coming out to his traditional Muslim parents that he barricades himself in their closet (literally). As he feverishly revisits his childhood memories, negotiates a budding romance with a new Ghanaian boyfriend, and wages a long-delayed battle royale to uproot his family’s conservative attitudes, he must also face his community’s biases (as well as his own) that have brought him to the brink. Fluctuating from humorous to more serious, EL HOUB is a dark comedy loosely based on the experiences and theater work of Fahd Larhzaoui (the actor playing Karim) and starring Lubna Azabal as Karim’s conservative but still loving mother.
Plays with:
NIDHAL (نِضال)
Bassem Ben Brahim; 2022; Tunisia; 10 min.
A young gay Tunisian immigrates to the Netherlands after creating s his own radio show to defend marginalized queer people in his conservative country.