"Watch out!" "No" "Oh my God, oh my God" "It's nothing" "Yes, it's something" "It holds" "Stop it" "Stop it or I leave" "Stop it, please" "There's a tier below, don't be afraid" "Please" "That's the point" "If I die?" "Sorry?" "If I die?" "Then I die after you" "That's the point, I don't want to die, so don't die, come" "Come!" "Come!" "Come fetch me" "You managed to go there, you manage to come back" " No that's not true" "Coming" "Please, come back, please, I beg of you" "Look, I never kneeled" "There, I'm out of my home so come home" "At last I get you back" "You don't have to be afraid" "Yes I have to" "For this semester's end:" "possible topics for my video reportage" "Virginity in Maghreb Difficulty to be a man" "Premarital sexuality Modern life and respect of the traditions" "Possible topics for my video reportage" "Virginity in Maghreb Difficulty to be a man" "Premarital sexuality Modern life and respect of the traditions" "And now, our reportage on the forms of homosexual unions continues with an exclusive interview of Abdellah Taïa writer born in Rabat who just published his first book." "Abdellah Taïa, do you think a form of civil union could be legalised in Maghreb by Muhammad VI or President Ben Ali?" "Civil union..." "Well, it's not my..." "I don't know what I ought to answer... and what I would like... but I don't think this will happen someday in Morocco but... we do have better rather we had better" "It was marriage between nmen in the oasis of Siwa which is in Egypt just near the libyan border there was, till the middle of XX century weddings between men" "More exactly, it was a specific social class which was called "Eggallah"" "they were workers for the wealthy in Siwa and, as they couldn't wed before they were 40 they had the opportunity to marry youths" "15, 16, 18, something like that so they proposed to the family they gave a dowry they a wedding was celebrated" "As there was a lot of palm trees they devote themselves to some practice" "They let their sensuality, their male sensitivity, express itself dancing an singing" "You have to know that, at night, the best way to have fun is to dance." "Oh yes, I saw a clip, in Algeria" "What's her name, Britters..." "Britney Spears" "Yes, her she was dancing with a mini skirt it's censored, down there" "They cut it?" "Yeah" "I swear" "It's a religious country" "I don't think so" "You go in the bushes" "You find Muslim Sisters and that's what they are doing" "Nowadays, for them twiddling in the bushes or someplace" "it's normal it's normal, yes" "And above all, don't touch... vagina, or..." "So that's hanky-panky" "No it isn't, far from it it's a form of homosexuality yes, from behind the boy gets his own pleasure the girl make do it's a pity" "If you think those people... they are constrained to do it so you got many frustrated people" "Ethnic an gay tea dance Every Sunday" " Black, White, and Coloured" "Why are they late?" "Yeah?" "Can I speak to you for a moment?" "Yeah, go on" "It's just to ask you..." "I'm doing something about..." "I've problems finding guys who'll... join my reportage" "What kind of reportage?" "It's..." "It's a sociology topic for my school, I have... to interview gays from..." "Why are you asking me?" "I'm not gay!" "No, no insult intended" "No, you come to me... but it's not because I'm there on a Sunday that..." "No, I don't want to have anything to do with your trick" "No, it's no trick..." "No, that' all" "Hey... wait!" "No, I can't, I told you" "To submit your ad, please wait..." "Hello" "I call for your ad in the papers" "I'm much interested, and I'm OK to be screened for an interview" "You are?" "Karim" "Hi" "I wasn't sure" "I almost knocked at the other door" "Oh yes?" "Make yourself confortable, take a chair" "It looks like good equipment" "That's my parent's, for holidays, and everything" "So you're Tunisian" "You did watch some practices... homosexual practices down there" "What differences have you noticed with here?" "What can I say?" "Don't you want us to speak more of myself, my personal experience?" "Yeah, go on" "Actually, I'm a performer" "I work mainly with my body" "Artworks take place on my body" "Explain" "You see, I get naked and I ask a man to make a drawing with henna on my skin on the spot he wants" "Afterward, I ask him to take pictures of me" "So, I become a living sculpture for the man who let his mark on my body a living sculpture, existing till the henna disappears" "But... what's the connection with you homosexuality?" "In fact it's often Maghrebin people as yourself with whom I make love" "I want my lovers to make an artwork with me and it can be heterosexual people, too" "You know what?" "I've never filmed my performance" "Would you like me to become your artwork?" "So I'll strip" "I'll bring my syringe and you'll make a drawing on me" "Don't worry, it'll be quick" "Would you open the door, please?" "You'll do your artwork without me" "Listen, I'm..." "That's not the topic." "Stop laughing" "Do you think there is... a homosexual algerian identity?" "I don't know, I'm sorry" "I don't know well since it's been a while since I went in Algeria." "due to the problems." "Last time I went," "I was 17 or 18" "From my innocent view, I saw homosexuality without knowing what it is really." "The thing is, people flirted with me" "I thought it was only a contact a contact between algerians" "I know arab contacts are very strong one holds hands have some kisses" "I think in Maghreb, a great lot of people are homosexual" "But some do it because they like it others do it short term, during boyhood and then, they marry" "Was it a burden for you, when you were young?" "I knew it quite lately lately?" "three years ago and during these three years, I spend two with somebody" "I'm quite faithful, so I stayed with this person, without questionning" "I fell in love with him." "It's over for a year, so now" "I enjoy parisian nights you understand?" "Which country do you like most?" "Certainly Egypt" "Join the club" "But you don't know it" "Egypt?" "No." "No, but sensitivity and..." "I don't know, but the way guys sing down there" "It's sensitive, it's romantic" "Perhaps romantic isn't appropriate word, but it's sensitive, they aren't afraid to... they don't fear to express themselves" "That's... it a way I appreciate" "Oriental music..." "it's a sensitive music generally" "Very sensitive" "And I feel, I'm sure you dance quite well" "What makes you say that?" "I don't know" "We've got time" "You could dance for me you owe me that much" "Sure" "You could do..." "You could show me how well you dance" "I do dance, but... only for myself" "Well Ok" "I hope you'll be able to help me because... till now, the testimonies I got weren't very deep or interesting" "Actually, I don't know if I can suggest something really interesting..." "What I'll do is..." "I'll present you... a few member's addresses" "Say you come from me, it's important" "Are they all gay?" "Yes, all of them, without exception as are most members of our association aside a few heteros who joined us, funny" "Those I selected are serious no problem" "They are willing to be filmed openly as we agreed on the phone." "Otherwise, I've an interesting contact an association called ADRIS" "who fights for clandestine gays" "At the moment, they see to a maghrebin an algerian who flew his country" "who's refugee in France, for the moment." "My name's Mohamed" "I'm gay, I'm algerian" "I was born in Algiers, I'm 27" "Homosexuality is a highbrow term in Algeria people can't understand what it means" "When you are told "homosexual"" "especially people who didn't go to school they can't understand people only say gay, for them, it's not... beware, it's an insult when you say, it's somebody well, it means, it's somebody" "who's "in his ass"" "who gets fucked but it's not for someone who fucks, because the one who fucks is a macho, a true man despite he fucks, he's still seen as a man" "I would say, he's accepted despite he's wicked he's still respected that is, his authority is respected he pass so society won't reject him" "or won't be ostracised they may wipe it away but somebody who gets fucked he got... not only he gets fucked, but he gets... all the bad jobs to do." "so it's important" "It's passive homosexuality, I insist, passive... homosexuality who's condemned." "How are you?" "7 floors!" "Sorry" "Do you like me fat, ou do you want me to slim?" "Thanks" "Take a smoke, if you like" "Oh, I got some, for once" "But they come from America so they are "deesgusting"" "Yes, as at home" "See, "deesgusting"" ""deesgusting"" "How are you going?" "Well, I was viewing my film" "Hey, I've something for you" "Look, your double" "It'll look good with your pic, yonder" "Michelangeli" "Good, my gazelle" "As soon as I saw the colors, they seemed..." "Funny, the expression is the same" "You could believe you did it on purpose the same position" "I think the drawer made it on purpose" "He copied me" "He copied your facial expression" "It's nice, isn't it?" "Actually, it makes an axis symmetry" " Like a couple that..." "I cheated on you" "There you go!" "I knew, going and coming from Algeria..." "But she's no algerian" "No, we knew her like you before" "For the green card, right" "But I had her put a veil, otherwise..." "True, with a face like that, it has to be the green card" "Well, I saw this pic, it's beautiful" "Hi, Karim, I'm in transit in Mykonos I just visited the island of Delos" "I wish you could film me here." "I like being in front of cameras, especially yours." "Farid." "Hi, Farid, Karim speaking" "I want to thank you for the pics" "They're lovely." "If you want to see them, just call me back." "I'm busy just now" "I changed at the airport so you can come right now, if you like" "I see you ran" "Back from your journey?" "Yeah, I arrived just now" "How come you're sweating so much?" "It's quite hot outside" "Yes, but that much, though..." "What?" "That much?" "You're from the countryside, no?" "It's so high, you have to deserve climbing to you" "Wanna have a shower, before I show you the pics?" "Just a fresh T-shirt, so..." "Ah shit, I suggest a shower, you ask for a T-shirt" "Either one, you don't mind?" "Yeah, never mind" "Is it OK?" "Yeah, fine" "Want something to drink?" "Whatever, as long as I drink" "OK" "Since you ran, water will be fine" "Where are you changing?" "Wow, what a man!" "Don't get excited, please" "Karim" "Tequila, or..." "Yeah" "Tequila" "Alcohol is bad." "I like bad things" "I stop, you must be thirsty" "Alcohol is bad, but you seem to have a lot" "I entertain a lot" "You know how to entertain" "I have to, people must feel at ease" "Thanks" "You fell alright by me?" "Health" "Stop it" "Are you uneasy?" "Well, I don't know" "Don't be afraid, I won't jump on you" "So are you showing me these pics?" "I look well, don't I?" "Yes, you look good on video" "Thanks" "You too, you look good" "Yes, but I don't get filmed." "Your turn will come" "Inch'Allah, as one say." "Inch'Allah" "Yes, I hear you" "Ciao" " Bye" " Bye" "See you" "Call me as soon..." " Call me whenever you like" " Fine" "Karim, for the interview, I wish to go to the Calanques at a naturist spot." "Don't be afraid, nothing's going to happen to you" "No trap but I wish to go there, I like the place." "You introduce yourself ahead of my camera" "It will perhaps be showed to students things like that" "Doesn't it bother you?" "Of course it does" "But I think I'm above that regarding my ho... my sexuality, plainly" "I'm above that" "Yes, I had problems, like identity problems regarding my culture and... my origins, therefore my sexuality too" "but it's going on" "So long as I assume, myself, it's going fairly well with others" "It would be more difficult telling my mother I eat pork than I am gay" " Oh yeah?" " Yes" " Does your mother know?" " Yes, she does" "Did she take it well?" "No!" "But she knows" " She knows" " Yes" "Karim, I warn you, I'm going to strip" "I hope it won't upset you" "Why don't you strip?" "Because I'm modest." "Do you want help spreading lotion on your back" "Do you stay there?" "Yes" "I go strolling" "I can't hear you, who's that?" "Hello" "OK, I hear better, now" "OK, now I know who it is bacause I couldn't hear you, it went "trbbshhh"" "Where are you?" "What did you say?" "where are you?" "It's up to you call me when you come back in Paris" "or we arrange a appointment just now" "if you like, eh, only if you want to see me" "I ask you, if you like, if you have something to do perhaps you don't feel like it, you'd like to stay..." "I don't know, that's why I ask you" "OK, fine, you call me back" "So, is you book going fine?" "I don't know" "Of course, hanging around backrooms..." " I've no means to know, and moreover..." " Why?" "Because I've to ask the publisher, ask the bookshops, and..." "On the other side, there's been no review, nothing" "Silence" "That's good, but..." "But people who know you, who've read the book, how do they see you?" "As a freak, as before" "Even you say quite often I'm a freak" "Stop thanks" " Go on, help yourself." " Thanks, I'm not hungry" "I actually came to see you not to eat." "That's soja" "Did you ear me?" "Go on, eat!" "Do you assume your homosexuality, compared with before?" "No, I don't" " Still not." " No" "It hurts me" "Every time I ejaculate, I cry and do you wash afterward, as before?" "No, I don't do it anymore" "You know, I'm making a reportage... on homosexuality, right now" "Would you like to... participate." "Do you make movies, now?" "I begin to." "You've done everything" "At 15, you were in politics" "What's the them of your film?" "Homosexuality in Maghreb" "For me, what's important is... to drop these questions right now" "I mean in my life and everybody's life." "There're two questions I don't ask myself but I understand people who... ask themselves when they are 20... 20, 25 years old" "That's homosexuality and origins." "Homosexuality and origins, it a final question" "Yourself, how do you stand towards sexuality?" "Sexuality?" "I stand... as an heterosexual" "But that's a bit strange you make a movie on that when you stand as an hetero" "Sociology is studying society" "Yes, but one chooses a subjet chooses a subject in relation with one's interests in relation with... do you feel personally concerned, in this work... in this task?" "That's a theme that hasn't been covered yet" "You mean your film... you apply sociologic methods" "to a documentary?" "I don't apply anything." "I light up a light." "Light keeps eroticism out, tight?" "Does it suits you... this interview?" "Yes, it's fine with me because it's important" "I know another guy who's working on that subject, too on Homosexuality in Maghreb" "I think it's his film's title" "Homosexuality in Maghreb" "Funny, I saw you at the same time" "I thought you worked together but you don't know him at all." "What's his name?" "Farid?" "Yeah, speaking" "Yes, I'm fine" "What do I mean, could you come, just now?" "What's that?" "You know quite well, it's my number" "Do you know who gave it to me?" "Oh yes, I've got an idea" "You've got an idea" "Yeah" "And what were you doing with him?" "It's a friend" "It's a friend whom you filmed" "So what?" "So what, you're doing a film about homosexuality in Maghreb, he told me" "Oh, there, cool down, that's it" "You don't offer me a drink, where's hospitality?" "Well, I go to see someone, you go before me, you... tell me!" "Think some." "Think what?" "You interviewed him the day before me" "But, Karim" "No, you tell me if you're doing a movie" "You thought the idea is good" "You wish to do it in my stead" "Do you mean what you say?" "No I don't mean it, I'm playing Shakespeare" "But I did it only for you that's it" "That's for you" " Is it your interview?" " Yes" "But why did you do it?" "For you" "Why, to help me doing it?" "May I have a drink, now?" "I don't want it" "What do you have?" "Tea" "I'll heat up some water" "But next time, warn me, I don't like..." "I didn't want to disturb you, I meant to surprise you" "It's my first present." "There will be more." "But it peeves me." "I've difficulties to find people so if you take them as I find them..." "Well, don't speak of it anymore" "Your posters are fine" "Ah, Farid el Atrache" "I'm called Farid after him" "Good music, good dance" "What question did you ask him?" "You'll see" "In the new town of Marrakesh near the great post office where boys, at night, dress as women get feminine forenames and wait there for a boy" "wishing to... fuck them" "It's why they are..." "Thanks" "You're welcome" "No, I mean" "A bit aggressive, no?" "Unbelievable" " I didn't know you that way" " You're not angry?" "No, frankly, no" "Thanks" "As an apology" "Hey, I did my best!" "I know, I'm patient" "Why aren't you in your film?" "Because it has no interest, I'm not a homo..." "I don't want to be filmed just because I'm a beur" "Stop it" "But it's so small" "You want to try?" "Karim" "Honestly, did you ever sleep with another man?" "No!" "Siam and you are going well together" "I mean, sexually, for example?" "Very well, yes" "Will you marry together?" " Do we wish to marry?" " Yes" "We're speaking of it but..." "I'm quite far from a decision" "After marriage, for instance ...if you marry" " Yes you realised that, all in all, it doesn't suits you, and... you fake love what will you do?" "Everything my poor heart wants to say" "You are now my master not knowing what to do with you if I had bad intentions because I'm good and kind, as God made me" "I dvise love and innocent laughing" "But this has no incidence on your life because it's too locked up, so God made it." "I'll cover you with tender love" "I will hurt you only with cuddles if you were warmer and more relaxed if you were less cold and distant we could enjoy good moments that will stay in our memories." "Hi Karim" "I write to you from Amsterdam, where I went to visit my friend, the photographer" "I took the oportunity to search for a possible gay mosque" "I tried to call arab groups, who could be interested." "I called several times, to no avail." "So I went to the Gay Documentation Center there, I found documents which could be of interest for you" "I made copies for you" "Eventually, I got in touch with one of the gay group, called Yussef Foundation" "That's what they said:" "I don't want to establish a gay mosque, the turkish group had that idea" "They wished to benefit from a turkish imam who came to Netherland, and get back to his country" "The aim of Yussef Foundation isn't radical, we just try to change mentalities inside muslim communities, and to create a research group within Islam to study an acceptance pattern of homosexuality, so that Imams learn to confront the idea" "We don't seek revolution, only evolution" "That's it, I'll try to find a camera to shoot both groups." "without any guarantee." "See you." "Mustapha" "I hav to go to a photographer." "Do you want to come with me?" "What kind of photos?" "Photos for a casting" "I've a lot of addresses." "Moreover, they are looking for... young english-speaking arabs for a feature length and since you speak english, so..." "But I don't want to become an actor." "Why, are you afraid of your body?" "I've to shoot closer like that yes, very good, don't move yes, super you know, the difficulty for the photographer is to resist being carried away, by himself... or by his model" "He has to resist the desire to shoot until the craving is so irresitible he can't do otherwise but shoot" "Yes, very good" "Yeah" "Don't move away" "Yeah." "I manage quite well with men, doing nothing" "Yes, there, there, don't move" "Good!" "Oh well" "Yes, super, super, super, don't move away" "Beautiful!" "Wow 7 o'clock Place Clichy, did you say?" "Half past 7 at La Chapelle, OK" "OK?" "Is it OK?" "It's always happening to me" "As soon as somebody is, even slightly, disturbed" "God send him to me." "Psychologist on duty" "You have the lawyer for the poors, and I am psychologist on duty" "I've something to fulfil which will certainly go through music and dance but I can't explain... the relation with... if it'll continue, I don't know" "I've enough with guys who don't know what they want, where they are." "I have to consult a real psychologist" "Hi, it's Farid" "Listen, I just land and I'm fine could we see each other?" "I've something to..." " You're OK?" " Jet lag." "Did you film anybody, meantime" "What are you reading, Jean Genet?" "Yes, Jean Genet's life" "Listen, I'm quite tired" "I can understand" "I'm tired strip your jacket, why don't you..." "I don't dare, I'm so shy" "You, shy?" "Isn't Siam here?" "No, she's out for a stroll" "Damn, it's a book" ""Do you love me?"" ""When I saw this sweet young man" ""He was laughing out" ""We were both" ""alone with God" ""However, he put his hand in mine" ""and talked a lot" ""then he asked me 'Do you love me?" "'" ""Yes, beyond love"" "Wow" "Arabs are so good" ""For you this book of persian poems" ""As for my dedication" ""Jean Genet will do it in my stead" ""Farid, who cares for you"" " Why a camera here?" "Did you interview somebody?" "No, I put it there... to shoot me dancing." "Could you show me some?" "May I take a shower?" "I go lying down there" "Make yourself at home, you didn't forget!" "But I feel at home here." "I don't mind, do as you please." "Do you keep your promises?" "What?" "Do you usually keep your promises?" "Sure." "What about?" "Massage, for instance." "Massage?" "You told me you would massage me." "Did I?" "I didn't speak of massage." "That's my spare keys, come whenever you like." "These two dainty little hands!" "Oh there you go" "It's cute" "Ah back off" "Stop it" "Ah! "Mouk"" ""Mouk"!" "You wanna play" "Stop fooling aroud" "Stop it" "If you do it again, I overthrow that" "Stop it" "You bastard!" "OK, let's stop together" "I did that when I was 10, are you mad?" "I blessed you, you won't be gay anymore" "I'll cruise you" "You got an rendezvous..." "love?" "Yes." "Are you jealous, do you want to go with me Do you want to see how it is between gays?" " Between men?" " Yes" "I'd like to see that, yes" "Ah but you have to pay for it." "Be laid down." "Are you top or bottom?" " I will top or bottom you!" " Oh I begin to learn" "Where did you learn these words?" "Honestly?" "Top bottom?" "Do you loiter in the Marais, now?" "No, I don't" "That makes them believe it's a cruising trick" "But you've got a way to kindle people" "I mean, when you look... you kindle" " Me?" " You know quite well" "You're kindling yourselves, as soon as you see me, you ogle" "Star!" "Who do you take you for?" "You loiter gay places, you look like a gay you ogle like a gay" "and you're dressed as a gay" "I'm sorry, I'm not dressed as a gay" "You're a faggot... a fag-got" "And the faggot sneers at you" "Yes you do!" " Are you bottoming, tonight" " Of course..." "I'm fed up toping" "Oh yes, with Siam" "Yes, you must be loose, now, it doesn't appeal to me" "I'm no bottom" "You're not a bottom?" "No you'd like me to be, he, bitch" "You'd like me to be a bottom" "You're a kindler" "Shit, that's for me" "Hurry up, your lovers're there" "Top!" "Do you have gel?" " Gel?" " Do you have any gel?" "I put some in my hair, what are you thinking about?" "Seriously, ask him if I may come" "Oh he's hot, you're a lucky man to have Farid he's so hot" "Don't listen to him" "He's plain silly" "I'm not silly, I love sex" "At the end you open your ass with..." "Are you stuck?" "It's not entirely inside?" "It's too big." "That's why." "Piss off." "You're a loose hole, that's it" "Yes, he only speaks sex." "He's crazy" "And he claims he's not gay" "Stop it with your little shitty taboos" "What's the meaning of all that" "Of course you get butt-fucked its looses up, it dilates" " So, we meet at your place, boulevard Voltaire" " Can you turn around, please?" "I wanna light up my cigarette" "He's jealous." "He's jealous, that's why, it's because he's in love with me, that's why he's like that" "Give me a cigarette, Siam" "Give me one, go on" "Hey, what's your problem?" "You wanna say something, what's that how come you throw me that pack can't you give it normally, as normal people do" "I have to say I exist" "You have to talk, there is something you have to say, speak up!" "You don't do motions like that, if you want to play such motions, I'll show you how I play you're gonna regret what you've just done" "I'll show you who's the gentle sex" "I can't believe it, you ask for a cigarette, she becomes crazy" "WHat's the problem, where's your problem you haven't spoken for days" "Speak up, let's start the discussion, speak up!" "I have problems, too, I have things going in my head" "Don't do it again, never!" "Never again." "Next time you have something to say, just speak up" "I can't stand moods like that" "What will you write down?" "What will you write down?" "Your mood?" "What you want to tell me?" "Tell it to me, now, in front of me so you'll see my reactions, live" "Now, if it's your way to talk, write your letter and get lost" "Don't talk with me." "Damn, women!" "You want us to stay like that for years." "Karim" "I'm going" "I discovered, in one of your books the charming dedication that the boy called Farid, wrote to you" "I you love him, go with him" "I can't live with a man who doesn't love me who loves somebody else" "Of late, you didn't touch me anymore you didn't want me to touch you" "I need love" "I can't live without tenderness" "If you think you love me, come back" "I don't say we won't meet again" "I need time to think" "Bye for now" "Siam" "Yes, sure you can come" "Siam went back to Algeria" "We live like rats, here" "It's hard, within this society which doesn't understand anything" "It's really risky, nowadays to be discovered as a homosexual and arrested by the state" "You can be raped, beaten al night long you can even die, without your family knowing anything about you" "A whore lived in the neighborhood, once she got... killed" "She got... slayed" "Hey, Karim" "Karim" "So tell me about your problems" "Well, I stop the film-making" "I don't know, the subject isn't innocent perhaps I choose it unconsciously to..." "I don't know, to expose my desire for men" "Don't you have a girlfirend?" "It's over" "You didn't tell me that" "No, because it's over, and it's between she and me" "Anyway, I'm unable to live with somebody" "We'll never marry, so?" "Do you want to travel with me, see the sun show you homosexual practices in Maghreb" "I will be your guide." "Day after tomorrow" "As you see, there's two of them for both of us" "What do you plan to do there?" "Assert if you are truly gay, or not." "No, why did you want to bring me there since you didn't know I took this decision" "I wished to be a longer time with you" "I, alone at least a week" "to see if we are made for each other" "You only have to say yes" "Yes to what?" "The journey, or you and me?" "The journey, first us, later." "No, I left Siam, I'm not oing with a man" "I don't know where I stand." " Karim what you just said is quite contradictory anyway, you're gay" "Look at me, please" "Stop that" "What are you doing?" "Stop it." "You don't know what you miss." "I don't know, I don't want anymore" "Finish your project, first" "I feel like filming" "Be a man, now, OK?" "Eh Karim" "OK?" "How do I do?" "I'm sorry, we got a double room, but I've to smoke" " Oh no, no" " I smoke" "You go smoking outside" " No, I smoke" " You're not smoking in the room" "That's not your home" "Go smoking there" "No, I smoke" "Go smoking in the hammam" "I can't smoke where it stinks" "It doesn't stink, it smells" "No, smoke outside" "Where are you smoking?" "Fine, I go outside" "I'm outside, but..." "Do you fuck?" " What?" " Do you fuck?" "Do I fuck?" "Yes, it happens, sometimes" "Would you like a shower?" "As they say in the traveller's guide what you shouldn't do is assuming young people walking in the street hand in hand, or rather finger in hand, are gay it's a sign of friendship, and not homosexuality." "Wow, top camera" "I know" "It's ten times better than mine" "I know too" "Smile to the camera" "How are you?" "Like that?" "Go on, pose" "You can also shoot stills with that?" "Wow, what a item" "Am I the item" "Oh yes, excuse me" "Are you shooting?" "Yeah" "First day of filming." "It's very hot, we just arrived in Marrakesh the town, where, it is said, homosexuality is quite tolerated" "Marrakesh is the Moroccan Marais" "Yep" "It's the "Funkish" district" "There's surely a lot of gay young Maghrebin here but I don't know where they hide" "Seems gay bars exist, like in the Marais but here, no bar claims to be openly gay and anyway, no native will let himself filmed" "Well, that's Marrakesh the great square I show you before" "lot of cruising" "Tourists?" "yes, tourists." "Prostitution, then?" "Yeah" "I took a few notes" "I'll read them to you" "Sexuality can't come true only in the rightful frame of marriage with the almost exclusive goal of reproduction" "Islam rejects any whim during sex, refuses passing unions and condemn free union" "However, age of marriage comes late so, for lack of performing heterosexual sex whereas he's in full possession of his sexual organs" "the young finds in homosexuality a feasible outlet to hetero sex." "So homosexuality is quite practiced before marriage and operates like a substitution sexuality" "So it's a normal evolution of young maghrebin sexual life" "You know, I've read that, so..." "I'm not aware now you've seen it but the gesture is..." "And all these people, all these boys, what are they here for?" "Amongst these people, almost 80% have already had a relation with a same sex person" "Look, as people pass by, they ogle" " Whether they wear a jellabah or not..." " That's normal" "Why is it normal" "I've been cruised quite a lot, since we are here" "The guy in the shop, where we were he told me you're an algerian, i said yes" "he told me I can see it, because it's beautiful people, all that" "After that, he asks me which hotel I stay in, and if he may come tonight" "Did you give him the name of our hotel?" "Yes, but he didn't know it, and I didn't took the trouble to explain" "I told him if I wished to see him again, I'd come back" "Why did you give him the name of the hotel whilst you know he was cruising you, he told you you were cute" "Because when you are in it, first you are surprised as long as he hasn't done a true approach a positive and honest approach he said he wanted to come" " Somebody tells me algerians like you are cute" " Listen, you have the habit, I don't" "I didn't know he..." " if I become jealous..." " He says..." "he just said which hotel are you in then he told me..." " Don't forget I speak arab, he wondered if..." " So at that moment, you were being cruised" "Some guys made me understand they were at my service in every sense of the word and I know it doesn't cause any problem I know they are quite... they are quite warmhearted, quite close" "Karim" "After Wermeer the male "Venus of Milo"" "How's my garb?" "What?" "Too long?" "Too long" "Do you know Siwa" "Yep" "There has been men's weddings till the 40s and you know, an anthropologist said there, at the beginning of the century, homosexuality was thriving every man had sodomy they spoke of it openly and bosses had harems with boys" "in Siwa oasis" "Egypt was quite open, at that time, no?" "What are you ogling like that?" "Not much to ogle here." "There's me" "Karim, you're a startled virgin, who waits the wedding to be deflowered." "Farid" "Farid, if you write instead of talking, I can do as much: don't be so much of a bully with me" "If you want me, learn to be more delicate" "Is it OK?" "Wait, I pushed some button" "Give it to me" "Why?" "I will do the film" " What's that?" " I will act as the guide" "Why, are you aware now?" "We won't use many cameras" "That's mine" "Wait, don't be afraid" "Farid, do you want me to be your guide?" "Are you really a student in psychology?" "Yeah?" "Oh well." "I've never checked." "I didn't check if you were a real steward" "I've never said..." "I've never told you to trust me" "Go on." "Be the guide." "I'm your guide?" "Amongst places which allow closeness of same sex people there's also the the coranic school is where the child has his first contact with sacred texts the sexual dimension takes its place it's often with his body's favors" "that the boy bypass his master's aggressivity" "When the master doesn't pay attention the oldest schoolboys take charge of the initiation of the youngest indulging in sodomy with them" "People overlooked homosexual practices in these places." "Some even say the master's sperm includes a measure of intelligence and divine blessing" "A Middle Atlas proverb says:" ""He who wants to learn, should go under the master"" "You should sign up your texts, Farid" "Don't play with that" "How I love you!" "Put you hand away" "Farid is upset, and doesn't want to be filmed anymore" "Don't look and you won't hear anymore" "The road to love" "You don't want to take, o my heart the road that leads to love" "Everything is ready for you now, but you don't want to do anything." "Say yes to me" "Take a responsability at least once in your life" "Farid, won't you stop your acting?" "Karim" "Say yes or no to me" "Say yes or no to me" "Hey!" "It's yes or no." "Now!" "I've other things to do, I'm not at your disposal" "Lovers or nothing" "Lovers or nothing, that's it" "I don't want to make the movie anymore" "I don't know where all that story leads" "I don't know where all that story leads, and I ask myself questions without finding any answers" "He told me I want to go to Jean Genet's grave before going away" "To say the truth, I didn't expect that but I was happy to go there" ""For you this book of persian poems As for my dedication, Jean Genet will do it in my stead" "When I was a child, God was mostly a picture" "When I was a child, God was mostly a picture" "God didn't count in my kid's little life" "At 15, I was seriously ill every day, in hospital, a nurse brought me a candy, saying" "That's the sick boy next room who sends it to you" "I went better, and after a fortnight, I wished to see and thank the boy who sent me a candy every day" "I saw a 16-17 years old guy, who was so good looking everything that existed before didn't count anymore" "God didn't exist, he was God" "From that guy, a lot of copies were made, who became all the lovers I had until a decade but no faded copies, on the contrary copies sometimes cuter than the original" "So God, it's in Greece I knew Him best" "Greece, and arab countries" "Buy a postcard, it's easier" "Romantic pics for a dime, do you want me running on the shore?" "Come along" "There is an excerpt on a city in Algeria where weddings between men took place" "as in Siwa" "Listen" "Practices we call aberrant are normal in other societies especially homosexuality which often enjoys unanimous apporbation from the group as in the case of Beni Brahim, in Ouargla, which dispense men's weddings before the ordinary marriage." "Karim, you talked again of men's weddings" "So, meet me in an hour at Foucauld's square" "Tomorrow mornig, we take the plane back" "If you don't move until then, it'll be too late." "What is it?" "Well, you'll have to give it to me, now." "Subtitles: coucou21"