{"id":4611,"date":"2018-03-14T02:14:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2018-07-27T02:24:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T00:24:31","slug":"usa-queerty-new-film-martyr-explores-where-masculinity-homoeroticism-and-islam-intersect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.queerlion.it\/en\/usa-queerty-new-film-martyr-explores-where-masculinity-homoeroticism-and-islam-intersect\/","title":{"rendered":"Usa, Queerty: Martyr explores where masculinity, homoeroticism, and Islam intersect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award season only just ended and people are already talking about which films to watch out for next year.<\/p>\n

Martyr is currently making waves at the SXSW film festival, where it has been included in the festival\u2019s official LGBTQ film selections.<\/p>\n

The homoerotic film is set in a seaside town in Beirut. After their friend Hassane, a young man from a poor neighborhood, drowns in the ocean, his friends are forced to grapple with the sudden loss.<\/p>\n

The funeral becomes a heartfelt farewell not only to their beloved friend, but to the beauty and sensuality of life, youth, friendship, and love.<\/p>\n

In Islamic tradition, drowning is considered grounds for martyrdom, hence the title of the film, Martyr.<\/p>\n

The dreamy film was recently nominated for the Queer Lion Award at the 2017 Venice International Film Festival<\/strong>. It\u2019s produced by Slingshot Films and directed by Mazen Khaled, an openly gay Lebanese filmmaker.<\/p>\n

Queerty<\/a> by Malcolm Rhodes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award season only just ended and people are already talking about which films to watch out for next year. Martyr is currently making waves…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[709,710,617,574,708,704],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-review","tag-homoeroticism","tag-islam","tag-martyr","tag-queer-lion-2017","tag-queerty","tag-usa","post-item","post-even"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t