“I went back to see him quite a few times but I never asked him any personal questions because it didn’t feel like my place, but the emotional impact it had on me was very strong and it really lasted.”Īt its core, The Blue Caftan is about the things that are left unsaid between star-crossed lovers, life partners, long-held friends and long-lost family, all explored through the lens of queerness. “I felt there were a lot of things that he wasn’t saying about his life, that there was a whole part of his existence that lived in the shadow,” she recalls. It came in the form of a mysterious man she encountered during filming for her previous project, Adam, who touched her “very deeply”. Here I know when the trigger happened,” Touzani tells PinkNews about the inspiration behind this story of forbidden love. “It’s always a bit complicated to know when a story begins. We also meet Halim’s wife Mina (Lubna Azabal) who is dying of a terminal illness and must confront her mortality while grappling with her husband’s sexuality.
With viewers swept away by the critically acclaimed Pakistani trans drama Joyland and the tender French Oscar nominated coming-of-age film Close, Morocco’s latest LGBTQ+ film The Blue Caftan is joining a growing wave of queer stories rarely seen on the big screen.Ĭo-written by Touzani and Nabil Ayouch, The Blue Caftan follows the bittersweet love story between a closeted Moroccan tailor Halim (Saleh Bakri) and his apprentice Youssef (Ayoub Missioui). Global LGBTQ+ stories are having a moment right now.
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Maryam Touzani, creator of groundbreaking Oscar-shortlisted movie The Blue Caftan, discusses the importance of bringing the LGBTQ+ Moroccan experience to the big screen.
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