
Book of Suffocations
Have you felt it too, the shame of loving? The guilt that clings when your hands reach for another? Where is it born?
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.
- Year: 1970
- Country: Lebanon
- Genre: Romance
- Studio: académie libanaise des beaux-arts - université de balamand
- Keyword: arab, catholic guilt, shame, conversion therapy, queer, student film, lebanon, religious trauma
- Director: Yoan Zoghbi
- Cast: Marc Achkouty, Guy El Kasis, Mohammad Fawzi