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The Judgment
Friday October 20th 2023, 9:15 pm
Streaming: October 30th - November 5th
Gateway Theater Fort Lauderdale
1820 E Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Film Details
Runtime: 110 minutes
Language: In English and Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Marwan Mokbe
Country: Egypt, 2023
Category: OUTshine After Dark
Genre: Drama, Gay, Horror
OUTSHINE AFTER DARK SCREENING
The film follows a gay couple returning from the US to Egypt for a family emergency. This forces the couple back into the closet as they attempt to pass as just friends in a country where homosexuality is forbidden. As the pervasive tension of dangerous homophobia rises around them, they begin to fear that they have fallen prey to witchcraft as punishment for their “homosexual sins”, causing one of them to fall into religious terror and exposing his unhealed past. Directed by Egyptian filmmaker Marwan Mokbe with a sexy Egyptian cast, The Judgement is a unique queer psychological horror story sure to please fans of the genre as well as anyone looking for a different kind of love story.
The film follows a gay couple returning from the US to Egypt for a family emergency. This forces the couple back into the closet as they attempt to pass as just friends in a country where homosexuality is forbidden. As the pervasive tension of dangerous homophobia rises around them, they begin to fear that they have fallen prey to witchcraft as punishment for their “homosexual sins”, causing one of them to fall into religious terror and exposing his unhealed past. Directed by Egyptian filmmaker Marwan Mokbe with a sexy Egyptian cast, The Judgement is a unique queer psychological horror story sure to please fans of the genre as well as anyone looking for a different kind of love story.
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