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- DirectorSalah AbouseifStarsMohamed El ArabiShams El-BarudyFayez HalawaAhmed (Muhammad Al-Araby) from Ismalia come to Cairo looking for work. Promise of richness is really far from reality of life. Ahmed falls in love with Naeema, a prostitute. And then there is Raouf Bey who is gay and fell in love with him.
- DirectorYoussef ChahineStarsNaglaa FathiAhmed ZakiFarid ShawqiYehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsImed MaalalKhaled KsouriHabib BelhadiIn the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This ripples out to affect Hachemi for, unbeknownst to anyone, as apprenticed youths they were molested by Ameur, the local carpenter. Farfat is banished from his father's home and the shared secret between the two friends threatens to undo more than just the wedding, but their very lives.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsAbdellatif KechicheGhalya LacroixJacques PenotRoufa, a young prostitute (Bezness) befriends a French photographer sent to do an expose.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsMeral OguzLale MansurDeniz TürkaliNewly divorced Nilgün is assigned to a small town. One day, she meets her long-lost childhood friend Havva while examining sex workers in a brothel. Two women get closer, but their relationship is tested by social and cultural conflicts.
- DirectorJamil DehlaviStarsJames WilbyMelissa LeoShabana AzmiA childless Western couple visit a fertility shrine in Karachi run by eunuchs and set off a huge culture clash.
- DirectorOrhan OguzStarsFikret KuskanMevlüt DemiryayMenderes SamancilarA dwarf and a transvestite, both are excluded from the society and doomed to exist at night. Their lives overlap in a strange encounter and this becomes the start of their friendship.
- DirectorYousry NasrallahStarsSeif AbdelrahmanAhmed KamalAbla KamelNoubi, an avowed communist from a wealthy family, sets out to find his half-brother Gamal after Gamal inherits his father's fortune. In the process, Noubi is supposed to kill his stepmother Raifa, a supposed drug dealer, before she can kill Gamal.
- DirectorAtif YilmazStarsDerya ArbasDeniz TürkaliUzay HepariSerap is a young woman who works as a prostitute in the bars of Beyoglu and one day she meets Fulya, a transgender woman, and Melek, an obsessive woman. Together all there have ups and downs in the dirty night life. Serap's life changes because she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with another man.
- DirectorMehreen JabbarStarsNadia JamilKunwal MumtazSaania SaeedThe story revolves around three women and a transvestite working in a beauty salon, whose interaction with one another engenders facets of personality and suppressed desires in each one hitherto unknown to them.
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsAlessandro GassmannFrancesca d'AlojaCarlo CecchiFrancesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.
- DirectorDaoud Aoulad-SyadStarsHassan EssakaliMohamed BastaouiAbdellah DidaneThe film tells the story of three people related to each other by their common itineraries: that of Rabii with his dreams; Kacem who is sick and trying to forget his dark past and Laarbi, an ex-boxer, an ex-convict and a mythomaniac who ends up in loneliness.
- DirectorMaryam ShahriarStarsAltinay Ghelich TaghaniSoghra KarimiZahra MohammadiAmangol's father cuts her hair and sends her to a village to work as a boy in a carpet weaving shop.
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsBiyounaCarmen MauraDjemel BarekIn Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.
- DirectorAkram ZaatariA look at the sexuality and self image of gay men in Lebanon, a country where the penalty for homosexuality is still imprisonment.
- DirectorMitra FarahaniSonbol B. Y.StarsMorvaridTeheran, October, 2000. One year ago, Morvarid was a man. Since her operation, she lives her femininity shielded from glances, between the four walls of her apartment. For the first time, she's covered with a chador and gets ready to go out as a woman ; we are going to follow her metamorphosis. How, in a country as Iran, can one have the will to be a woman?
- DirectorAbdelkrim BahloulStarsCharles BerlingMehdi DehbiOuassini EmbarekJean Senac, a French settler in North Africa, poet and creator of radio programs, decided to stay in Algeria after the declaration of independence in 1962. Ten years later he is now under police surveillance.
- DirectorMania AkbariStarsBijan DaneshmandMania AkbariA film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of issues of men and women within confines of tradition and family life in Iran.
- DirectorÖmer Faruk SorakStarsCem YilmazÖzge ÖzberkOzan GüvenA slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
- DirectorMitra FarahaniStarsCoralie RevelStéphane BenrezzakFilmmaker Mitra Farahani portrays love and sex in today's Iran. One part fiction and one part documentary, the film was shot secretly and is banned in its native country. The fictional part is based on "The story of Zohra and Manouchehr" poem of Iraj Mirza.
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsLubna AzabalBiyounaNadia KaciThis movie portrays three women living in today's Algeria between modern society and Islamic fundamentalism, self-determination and dependence. Goucem, a young woman who works for a photographer and mistress of a rich doctor, her mother Papicha, a former cabaret star, and her best friend Fifi, a prostitute, all live in a hotel in the city center of Algiers. Their difficult personal situation and the growing influence of Islam lead to dramatic consequences...
- DirectorNegin KianfarDaisy MohrStarsZahra MeygoliA young trans woman is followed in her transition through gender-affirming-surgery in Iran, up to and beyond her operation. We meet her boyfriend, other transgender people (among them, a transgender man), the doctors, a priest and especially her family. All of them are religious, all of them are changing lives.
- DirectorMarwan HamedStarsAdel EmamNour El-SherifYoussraMeditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- DirectorParvez SharmaStarsMuhsin HendricksA.K. HoosenMazenA documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
- DirectorNadine LabakiStarsNadine LabakiJoanna MoukarzelGisèle AouadA romantic comedy centered on the daily lives of five Lebanese women living in Beirut.
- DirectorNadir MoknècheStarsBiyounaNadia KaciManel TouatiWhen it comes to surviving in today's Algeria, no scam is too daunting for the woman who has adopted her country's name. If they're pretty and lacking in principles, her recruits can make a career for themselves. The latest of these, Paloma, is quite a hit, especially with Riyad, Madame Aldjeria's son. But the purchase of Caracalla Springs, the dream that should allow Aldjeria's clan to start a new life, proves to be one scam too many.
- DirectorMaher SabryStarsSeham Saneya AdelsalamMehammed AmadeusJanaan AttiaFor Rami, all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds, as long as he keeps to himself. But when his longtime lover leaves him to marry a woman and his best friends drift away, he comes face to face with the harsh realities of life as a gay man in Egypt. Against the backdrop of the choreographed crackdown on gay men and the notorious Queen Boat arrests of 2001, he plunges into a world of loveless friendships and spirals downwards to his ultimate downfall.
- DirectorTanaz EshaghianAn intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, 'Be Like Others' is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranian men choosing to undergo sex change surgery.
- DirectorHarjant GillStarsOkan AvciYaman CeriÖzgür HacierOn one hot summer day, Mehmet's three uncles and aunt barge into his and his lover Ali's house, threatening to destroy everything he hopes for and had created with Ali.
- DirectorAlissar GazalStarsAlissar Gazal> Lesbanese > Is a one-of-a-kind documentary exploring the lives of lesbians in Lebanon. > > Who are they, where do they hang out, what do they wear, and most > importantly, how do they negotiate their desires within a troubled > nation like Lebanon? > > This documentary will open a window to a hidden world, and introduce you > to women who are savvy, sexy and confident about themselves. It will > delight and surprise you!
- DirectorBahman MotamedianStarsGhavi BalBahare GhavibalAsghar NejadTells the story of seven Iranian transgender individuals living in Tehran who live pieces of their own lives on the screen.
- DirectorDöndü KiliçStarsMehmet TarhanTrapped between European lifestyles and Islamic roots, this film tells the stories of young, gay men on the path to attaining a life of their own creation while fighting against a society that refuses to see them.
- DirectorMarc Abi RachedStarsHussein MaatoukJohanna AndraosKhalil El ZeinAli, a delinquent, is living a chaotic life. His life changes when he meets Souraya, a prostitute threatened by Jacques, a mob guy who is having problems at home. One day, while driving him in his cab to his office, Maroun notices their extreme resemblance. The choices of some and the destinies of others meet and change their existences.
- DirectorKhalid GillAn examination of how transgenders live in Pakistani culture.
- DirectorImad NourySwel NouryStarsSaid BeyAudrey MarnayLatifah AhrarA young man with everything going for him is driven insane.
- DirectorMehdi Ben AttiaStarsClaudia CardinaleAntonin Stahly ViswanadhanSalim KechioucheMalik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
- DirectorHossein KeshavarzStarsSara EsfahaniTahereh AzadiShahrokh TaslimiIntertwines the lives of six young Iranians as they struggle to satisfy their private desires in the face of conservative Islamic society.
- DirectorEmre YalginStarsKanbolat Görkem ArslanDidem SoyluSeyhan ArmanSanem is a working girl sharing a flat with three transvestites in Istanbul. Every day she dreams of a savior who will take her away. One day a young man named Gökhan moves into the neighborhood, and soon Sanem attracts his attention. This will be the beginning of a journey during which both will question each other and their choices in life.
- DirectorHicham Ayouch
- DirectorMaryam KeshavarzStarsSarah KazemyNikohl BoosheriReza Sixo SafaiA wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
- DirectorNegar AzarbayjaniStarsShayesteh IraniGhazal ShakeriHomayoun ErshadiRana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transgender man prevented from living as his true self by his family. They find themselves on the same journey and caused to know each other in a better way.
- DirectorDanish KhanStarsSaqib HasanHassan JafferyWaqas JamalA gay boy goes to a typical teahouse in Karachi to take his usual Kashmiri chai.
- DirectorSeyfi TeomanStarsIlker AksumFatih AlGunes SayinThe peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves in with them.
- DirectorSamer DaboulStarsRudy MoarbesAli RhayemJad HadidA modern tale of friendship and love in Lebanon today. It is also a bittersweet reflection on the social struggles of the after war generation.
- DirectorCaner AlperMehmet BinayStarsKerem CanGiovanni ArvanehErkan AvciA feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots of love and support from his family, and Ahmet born to an eastern and conservative family whose quest for honesty and liberty results in a tragic end.
- DirectorChris BelloniStarsRayan RayanThis intimate documentary I AM GAY AND MUSLIM follows a number of young Moroccan gay men in their exploration of their religious and sexual identity. The men portrayed in the film openly share their personal experiences and talk about the ambiguity and secretiveness of the life they feel condemned to live, although some have openly acknowledged their sexual orientation.
- DirectorGuillaume GiovanettiÇagla ZencirciStarsUzma AliBaba HussainNoorNoor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love story he had with one of them, that had drastically changed his life. Now, he is doing a man's job in a Truck Decoration Center and he made up his mind: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is...
- DirectorÇagan IrmakStarsDeniz CelilogluAras Bulut IynemliSumru YavrucukThe key to the puzzle of forlorn sculpture Tammuz's life and reality of his dreams lies within Ihsan who is a young boy with tetra-amelia syndrome.
- DirectorSaad KhanSaadat MunirStarsNeeli RanaKamiWaseemA group of Pakistani sexual minorities, raise questions about transgender activism, religion, underground gay life, social acceptance and collective familial customs of transgender women in urban Pakistan.
- DirectorChristophe KarabacheStarsPascale HabibChristophe KarabacheVanesa PrietoIn an insecure suburb of Beirut, a Lebanese transvestite, meets a Spanish model who poses for a photographic project and both set up a bizarre relationship. The project is blocked. Nothing happens as predicted. In the street, young boys beat some people with slingshots.
- DirectorMitra FarahaniStarsBahman MohassesA documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso," whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran.
- DirectorRoy DibStarsZiad ChakarounAbed KobeissyMondial 2010 is a film on love and place. A Lebanese gay couple decides to take a road trip to Ramallah. The film is recorded with their camera as they chronicle their journey. The viewers are invited through the couple's conversations into the universe of a fading city.
- DirectorCan CandanStarsMehmet Yilmaz AkYunus AlbayrakMehmet AslantugWhat happens when your child comes out to you? In this feature documentary, parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender individuals in Turkey intimately share their experiences with the viewer, as they redefine what it means to be parents, family, and activists in this conservative, homophobic, and trans-phobic society.
- DirectorAbdellah TaïaStarsSaid MriniKarim Ait M'HandAmine EnnajiIn a working class neighborhood in Casablanca, Abdellah, a homosexual teen, tries to build his own life within his big family, caught between an authoritarian mother and an older brother, who he adores.
- DirectorHani FawziStarsSalwa Mohamed AliMohamed BasherAhmed El RafieFamily secrets is the first Egyptian movie entirely talking about Homosexuality in Egypt. Marwan who is 18, the main Gay actor, passes through a journey that every Egyptian gay guy passes through. The movie shows different opinions about Homosexuality for 4 different doctors basically describing the four categories of doctors who respond to such cases, one of them said that homosexuality is natural and the society should accept it. Although many say it is a pro-Gay conversion therapy, many of the Egyptian and Arab LGBT community have seen a glimpse of hope to find a movie debating the issue in public and it is considered a taboo to talk about.
- DirectorHicham LasriStarsMalek AkhmisFairouz AmiriMohamed AouraghTarik, a cross-dressing troubadour who performs traditional dances and shunned by those around him. Crippled by inertia, he is unable to feel emotion even when faced with the man who killed his family. Larbi, the family horse who pulls the cart on which Tarik dances, won't take another step. And word has it the drinking water has been contaminated. And Tarik's false persecution as a homosexual where homosexuality is still palimpsest and a criminal offense.
- DirectorSelcen Yilmazoglu LombardiStarsGürkan GünalKelley DanielHakan YildizAn introverted college student Akin's recognition and the process of finding himself in life.
- DirectorParvez SharmaStarsHamad AlmutaaniMaram AlzghoulShady EldanfFor a gay filmmaker, filming in Saudi Arabia presents two serious challenges: filming is forbidden in the country and homosexuality is punishable by death. For filmmaker Parvez Sharma, however, these were risks he had to assume as he embarked on his Hajj pilgrimage, a journey considered the greatest accomplishment and aspiration within Islam, his religion. On his journey Parvez aims to look beyond 21st-century Islam's crises of religious extremism, commercialism and sectarian battles. He brings back the story of the religion like it has never been told before, having endured the biggest jihad there is: the struggle with the self.
- DirectorGauthier RaadThis documentary talks about the double life of two gay men in Lebanon.
- DirectorNabil AyouchStarsLoubna AbidarAsmaa LazrakHalima KaraouaneA group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.
- DirectorSonia ChamkhiStarsAïcha Ben AhmedGhanem ZrelliJamel MadaniWhile Mehdi is torn between his secret gay affair and the perspective of getting married, his sister Hind struggles to face her present and to reveal the secrets of her past kept in the dark.
- DirectorKarim BoukhariStarsKhadija AdlyFayçal AziziRokaya BenhaddouThe story of the wig is about a young man who goes to movies while he is dressing like a woman. His wig is his protection, his transformation is his way of expression. The movie reveals homosexuality in the Moroccan society.
- DirectorChris McKimEva OrnerStarsBtoo AllamiMichael FaillaNayyef HrebidIn 2004, Ramadi was the most dangerous place on earth and the last place anyone would expect to find love. But that's what happened between an Iraqi translator working for the U.S. and an Iraqi soldier.
- DirectorRoy DibStarsSandy ChamounLara ChekerdjianJulian FarhatFour people from an Arab generation roaming over the ruins of ideologies, causes and virtues of their predecessors. It portrays their intellectual and emotional nonchalance about what is happening around them in their daily lives and relationships. In a house whose architecture is a sixties' experiment in mixing modern and Islamic architecture, a stone and concrete cube suspended over a rocky shore bashed by the waves of the Mediterranean, by famed Iraqi architect Refaat Chaderji, we spend a night with four characters whose non-stop conversations and peculiar actions reflect the void and chaos they are living in.
- DirectorSelim MouradStarsCarol AbboudMunir AbdallahChristine ChoueiriThe director is the last child of his family. At a time when the traditional family house is set for demolition, he faces his parents with his sexuality and tried to convey meaning to his existence.
- DirectorChabname ZariabStarsShafiq Ahmad AliArya VossoughiFarhad Faghih HabibiIn Afghanistan, bachas are young male prostitutes obliged to dance, dressed as girls, for a male audience. They are under the control of a master. When You Hear the Bells tells the story of Saman, a bacha, who feels threatened by the arrival of Bijane, a boy younger than him who is destined to take his place. Jealous of this boy, who might steal the feelings and protection of his master, Farroukhzad, he is obliged to initiate Bijane and to teach him to dance.
- DirectorMohamed SabbahStarsCharbel KamelMohamad Al KhansaCaroline HatemOmar, a photographer, has a special experience with death. He is trying to express it through a new project. One day, three photo sessions and witnesses. Between the walls of a studio, one photographer and three people meet up after a casting. Bodies express stories of sex, love and trauma in the city of Beirut.
- DirectorAbbas RazijiStarsAbbas RazijiSepideh AshrafiBita BaadraanMaryam have been past thirty. The woman who borne as a girl but...she passed her puberty like a boy and in the way of love and subsistence she tried hard her every day just like a male...
- DirectorTamara ShogaoluStarsAdamAfter a traumatic encounter, a young, gay Egyptian joins the LGBT rights movement. When his safety is jeopardized, he must choose whether to stay in the country he loves or seek asylum elsewhere as a refugee. HALF A LIFE is a timely story of activism and hope, set in the increasingly dangerous, oppressive, and unstable social climate of Egypt today.
- DirectorHakim MastourStarsBellamine AbdelmalekHakim BelkahlaBilel BrikiIn a village in the Tunisian countryside, Sofiane is getting married to Halima. He is going along with the wedding for the sake of appearances and his family, despite his profound love for his partner Fouad. When Fouad turns up unexpectedly at the festivities, Sofiane tries to get his parents to accept him for what he truly is. Against all odds, the ceremony ineluctably follows its course, thereby imposing the will of a liberty-deprived Tunisian society.
- DirectorMazen KhaledStarsCarol AbboudHadi Bou AyashMoustafa FahsA young man's tragic death at Beirut's seaside causes his friends to grapple with loss and to partake in his community's rites and ceremonies, exposing the city's schisms and its society's fault lines.
- DirectorAyse ToprakMr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refugees who are trying to rebuild their lives. Husein is a barber in Istanbul, living a double life between his conservative family and his gay identity. Mahmoud is the founder of Syria's LGBTI movement and is a refugee in Berlin. What brings them together is a dream: to participate in an international beauty contest as an escape from their trapped lives and an answer to their invisibility. Will the dream come true or will the refugee crisis and the harsh consequences of being gay in the Muslim world shatter it to pieces?
- DirectorFerzan ÖzpetekStarsHalit ErgençTuba BüyüküstünNejat IslerDeniz, an acclaimed author, is writing a book about his family and friends. He asks Orhan for critics. The day Orhan came to Istanbul from London, Deniz disappears. Orhan, Deniz's friend Neval and Deniz's lover Yusuf tries to find Deniz.
- DirectorNada Mezni HafaiedhNada Mezni Hafaiedh's Upon the Shadow follows the life of former Femen member Amina Sboui and the community of LGBTQ friends she houses in her Tunisian home. Offering unparalleled insight into life following the Arab spring, social persecution, and political struggle, from a queer perspective. Dive into the stories of Amina's strong and enchanting group of LGBTQ loves and comrades: Sandra, Ramy, Ayoub and Atef, as they bond and build queer community against a backdrop of global trauma and struggle.
- DirectorSarra Ben HmidaFocusing on homosexuality within the Tunisian society, this documentary brings three stories of LGBT couples, who decided to take up the challenge of revealing their identities and their sexual tendencies to the camera.
- DirectorGauthier RaadIn the middle of chaotic Beirut, two gay men decide to live openly their sexuality. This is where the dilemma starts; lovers, sex, family, society, photoshoots...
- DirectorArman FayyazStarsNima HassandokhtThe young woman who committed suicide was carring for bury to the tomb of the village, but the fanatical villagers were expelled after discovering the female hermaphrodite nature and engaging with his wife.
- DirectorBurak CevikStarsZinnure TüreDila YumurtaciEsme MadraA reclusive woman in her thirties leads a life frozen in time in a cave-like room. She searches for her twin sister in unfrequented corners of the city.
- DirectorÜmit ÜnalStarsSelen UçerEce DizdarAysenil SamliogluAfter not having seen each other for 20 years, two women are reunited on the small Turkish island where, as teenagers, they first fell in love. What is the mysterious force that binds them together after all this time? And what can they do about it?
- DirectorLeyla YilmazStarsSenan KaraYurdaer OkurEmir ÖzdenWater polo player Young Umut lives in a family that is not satisfied with their lives. His parents Selma and Sinan find it difficult to endure each other, and Umut is after to prove himself. Then rumors start circulating that Umut is gay.
- DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben MiledAfter years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
- DirectorBassem Ben BrahimThis animated coming-of-age story explores the familial, societal, and religious challenges a boy faces because of his sexual orientation.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsNour HajriJoumene LimamAfef Ben MahmoudJanuary 2014. Zina and Joe, around 20, return to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina has been separated from her two-month-old child, and Joe, being pregnant, locks herself and only talks about Syrian horror through her next novel "Raped". Nadia, a lawyer, and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, accompany them in their long and difficult reconstruction; between violence of relatives, hard feedback from social networks, and misery. Nadia, also a lawyer of Driss, 21, persecuted homosexual and expelled from all schools, asks her to help Zina.
- DirectorAlaeddine SlimStarsAbdullah MiniawySouhir Ben AmaraKhaled BenaissaS is a young soldier in the southern desert of Tunisia. When he learns about his mother's death, he obtains a week's leave and goes back home. He will never return to the camp.
- DirectorMohammad DaeizadehStarsSeyyed Jamshid HosseiniNima EnsafianShayan FasihzadehA man while stealing , encounters two men have been sexing on the back seat of a car in the parking.The thief forcing them to give him all the money they have.The boys are also scared of being disgraced in front of neighbours , and they know if they call the police,he will only be sentenced to three months in jail for theft ,but they will be sentenced to death by gallows for being gay, they are forced to tolerate all the verbal and physical humiliations by the thief and give him whatever he wants.
- DirectorDiako YazdaniStarsKojinA political refugee in France returns to his family in Iraqi Kurdistan and introduces them to a young gay man struggling for acceptance. This poignant documentary showcases their journey through humor and poetry
- DirectorMaksoudian TonyWould you keep your loved one next to you no matter what or let them go if it is for their own good? When Josef, a Lebanese closeted young man in his mid-twenties gets a job abroad, his life is put into perspective.
- DirectorEris AkmanStarsUmit SuralOguzhan YildizAliye MutluThe story takes place in the back streets of Galata . MELI, a transvestite who works as a singer in a classy nightclub, finds an abandoned baby on his way back from work one early morning and takes him home.
- DirectorDogus MinsinStarsErkan CelikArda MinsinGülsün OdabasAfter all his unhappy experiences Aytug come to the turning point of his life. Either he refuses the life which society offers for him and will end his life, or choose to live as he wants and stand out against society's norms of ideal gender role.
- DirectorMetin AkdemirStarsSerap AksoyHale SoygaziNur SürerHayalimdeki Sahneler aims to explain and analyze scenes from 3 heavily queer coded Turkish films from 80s.
- DirectorSelim MouradStarsTamara SaadeSelim MouradElie BoudjokA visit to a cosmetic-surgery clinic and the discovery of a lump in his testicle and an abscess in his mouth confront filmmaker Selim Mourad with transience and decay in this unashamedly navel-gazing film essay.
- DirectorMehdi Torab-BeigiMohammad Torab-BeigiStarsMahdi PakdelRa'na AzadivarAli BagheriA strong story about a transgender girl in Iran who is finding a rich man to pay for her gender operation, only to find out that it was just a horrific plan against her.
- DirectorGeorge Peter BarbariStarsEtienne AssalAdnan KhabbazJean Paul FranjiehEtienne is taken by his friends to a prostitute for the first time. Three troubled teens on their way to win their acceptance into manhood. Though several unexpected occurrences take Etienne on an unforeseen journey into himself.
- DirectorMehmet Selçuk BilgeStarsEce ErtezGökhan TercanliDenizhan KinacigilFragments From Another World is a movie made of the colors of the rainbow flag. Each color has a different meaning, and the film narrates the lack of those meanings in our lives in the era of "new normal".
- DirectorUlas TosunStarsArkadas Z. ÖzgerSina AkyolBilgin AlanbeyThe documentary is named after Arkadas Z. Özger's poem Hello My Dear (Dost Magazine, 1970) which had caused much controversy in that period. In this episodic poem considered to be in defiance of heteronormativity; there are references to his personality, his family, his relationship with society and his "unexpected" death which followed 3 years after this poem was published. Today, 50 years after the poem was written, the documentary follows these same episodes with the use of cinematic elements. "Hello My Dear" is an attempt to capture what is lost. The documentary rediscovers the poetics; reaches out to the family, the comrades, the friendships, the events and attitudes that left their mark on the poet, departing from the official historical accounts, cognizant of his experience of otherness, in pursuit of the "lost" portrait of Arkadas Z. Özger.
- DirectorEliane RahebStarsRuben CardosoMiguel JelelatyFrançois NourA gay man confronts the ghosts of his past and explores hidden longings, unrequited love and tormenting feelings of guilt.
- DirectorMehdi HmiliStarsSlim BaccarAfef Ben MahmoudIheb BouyahyaAmel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, she seeks her missing son Moumen, a young football player destroyed by the scandal.
- DirectorAnicee GoharStarsMohanad KojakZip It exposes the challenges a creative and eccentric young man can face in a society where anything unconventional is controversial. Following the out-of-the-ordinary yet ordinary life of Egyptian "fashion designer of the moment" Mohanad Kojak, the film shows the resilience it takes to be successful in today's Cairo.
- DirectorMohammad Shawky HassanStarsDonia MassoudAhmed El GendyNadim BahsounPop clichés are twisted with the love between two men who encounter a polyamorous chorus of lovers.