RED CHEWING GUM – by Akram Zaatari – 11 mins

2000 | Lebanon | Arabic | 11min | AkramZaatari

Screening on 1st February 2014 ( Download Schedule PDF)

This erotic short is a love poem of sorts as one man recalls meeting another in an alley fifteen years earlier. There, alone in the alley together, they avidly watch a young street vendor chew his gum. One particular piece of gum stands out in the poet’s memory because of its color.

(Part of the Special Package from the Bangalore Queer Film Festival)