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Hello Parents

Country: France, Language: English, 18 mins

Original Title

Marhaba Ilkoun...aka: Bonjour Parents
  • Director: Manuel Marmier

CGiii Comment

For what it is...it's too long and too preachy.

As a film...it shows nothing and has too many bad edits.

It would have made a better radio play.


Watch...

Hello Parents (MAR7ABA ILKOUN) from manu marmier on Vimeo.

The(ir) Blurb...

A young Libanese man just moved to NY to live and work there. He keeps in tuch with his mother who stayed in Lebanon, but he hides her that he’s Gay. His live is not everytime what he tells her in his letters and he fights again his own tabu and paradox. He doesn’t want to make suffer his familly but for his own happiness he has to make a choice.

Cast & Characters

Said Chaitou;
Manuel Marmier