Book of Suffocations
2025
19 min
Arabic
Have you felt it too, the shame of loving? The guilt that clings when your hands reach for another? Where is it born?
$650
Torn between faith and desire, a young Arab man at a religious facility must confront his queer identity as he navigates the path to salvation and the allure of forbidden love.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- académie libanaise des beaux-arts - université de balamand
Keywords
- arab
- catholic guilt
- shame
- conversion therapy
- queer
- student film
- lebanon
- religious trauma
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Top Cast
Marc Achkouty as Rami
Guy El Kasis as Adam
Mohammad Fawzi as Br. Marwan
Top Crew
Yoan Zoghbi · Director, Writer
Tadeo Boustany · Cinematographer
Natasha Zoghbi · Producer
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