Title
Oriented
Direction
Jake Witzenfeld
Country
Israel, United Kingdom
Cast
Khader Abu Seif, Fadi Daeem, Naeem Jiryes
Production
Conch Studios
Distribution
Pictured
Genre
Documentary
Duration
86'
Year
2015
Festivals
Amsterdam (documentals), Cleveland, LAFF (Cairo, African cinema), Nashville, Sheffield (documentals), Warsaw (LGBT)
First showing in
Spain
OFFICIAL SECTION: DOCUMENTARIES
Oriented is a feature documentary that follows the lives of three gay Palestinian friends confronting their national and sexual identity in Tel Aviv. Khader is from a prominent Muslim family and lives with his Jewish boyfriend David. Fadi is an ardent Palestinian nationalist who finds himself falling in love with an Israeli “Zionist”. Naim must confront his family with the truth about his sexuality. All three are conflicted by their desire for change in the face of a seemingly hopeless situation. Meanwhile, a war is brewing...
Determined to “change their reality”, the three best friends form a group called “Qambuta”, a non-violent, cultural resistance movement fighting for gender and national equality. Through their activism, they address what it means to grow up with the burden of a multi-faceted identity.
*Nasij is a project based in Barcelona, though it can extend to the rest of Spain. It is a physical and virtual network established to combat Islamophobia through dialogue, an inclusive vision of Islam, from a decolonial, intersectional, feminist and queer perspective.