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Refugees Welcome (XConfessions Volume 9)

Erika Lust Films

22 min. Directed by Bruce LaBruce
  • Studio: Erika Lust Films
  • Directed By: Bruce LaBruce
  • Year: 2017
  • Runtime: 22 min.
  • Country: Germany, Spain, Syria
  • Languages: Arabic language
  • Captions: English captions, French captions, German captions, Spanish captions
  • Date Added: 2020/03/31
  • Performers: Jesse Charif, von Roháč

Curator's Note:

Content note: This film contains racial slurs and a realistic portrayal of sexual violence. Additionally, there is a moment without captions, where director Bruce LaBruce requested that captions and translations be intentionally unavailable during the first 5 minutes of this film as an artistic comment upon our culture, language, and communication.


Description:

Inspired by the deeply moving and brave story of a gay Syrian refugee arriving in Germany, Erika Lust hired the prolific, fantastic and controversial director Bruce LaBruce to direct XConfessions' first gay film.

A Syrian refugee is living in Germany when he stumbles across a poetry reading. Not understanding each other's language, they nevertheless share a moment of recognition, of desire, from across the room. Too shy to approach any further, the young man walks away. But that won't be the last time they meet...

Brutal, gentle, sexy, romantic and earth-shatteringly moving, this film is an exploration of how our differences can become our similarities; how in a world being turned upside down, love and desire are still the strongest forces of all.

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