Queer individuals from the Big Maghreb region share their stories, spanning across their home countries and various locations worldwide.
Through a fusion of drawing, animation techniques, and real-life footage,these artistic portrayals highlight the experiences of queer individuals from the "BIG Maghreb" region, including Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco. These individuals have courageously shattered societal taboos surrounding their gender and sexuality, defying legal, social, and familial
pressures, even among those who have chosen to distance themselves from their families.

English

Maghreb's Hope

2 lesbian high school girls who decide to erase footage from the school's CCTV cameras end up getting locked up at school.

CCTV

Since she left Corsica where she grew up, Safia has always secured family balance. To protect her relationship with her father, she has never told him about her homosexuality. On a summer evening, she breaks the secret and runs away.

L'ECHAPPEE

A young barber boy who is interested in one of his clients decides to reveal this interest and faces challenges along the way.

Shideh

Youssou and Malek are in love but they now have to say goodbye. Tomorrow, Youssou is flying off to the other side of the world, leaving behind him Malek and the neighborhood where they grew up. They promised each other to meet at the top of the hill for their last sunset together.

Youssou & Malek

Massachusetts

Stories From MENA and the Diaspora: MENA shorts

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Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival was founded in 1984 by film programmer George Mansour. Our mission is to build community and to celebrate Queer storytelling and filmmaking through the uplifting of voices and stories not yet heard and to present and preserve the vibrancy of our histories.

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