MR GAY SYRIA

By Ayse TOPRAK

LES FILMS D'ANTOINE - as PROD

LGBT - Completed 2017


Festivals
& Awards

Sheffield 2017
Sarajevo FF 2017
Human Rights Award
Chicago IFF 2017
Silver Hugo
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • LGBT, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, GERMANY, TURKEY
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, ENGLISH, TURKISH
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ayse TOPRAK
    • Producer(s)
    • Antoine SIMKINE (LES FILMS D'ANTOINE), Christine KIAUK (COIN FILM GMBH), Ekin CALISIR (Toprak Films)
    • Synopsis
    • Mr. 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?