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Sometimes I Wish I Was on a Desert Island

Country: Canada, Language: English, French, Arabic, 10 mins

  • Director: Eli Jean Tahchi
  • Writer: Eli Jean Tahchi
  • Producer: Pierre-Mathieu Fortin

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Do filmmakers not realise that most [if not all] COVID films are boring!?!

And...this is an introspective bore!


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The(ir) Blurb...

As the world learns to live again in the midst of the pandemic, for many Arabic-speaking LGBTQ+ people living in Montreal, this is just a period of time like any other. When you've fled homophobic violence in your home country and endured a painful migratory journey, or you still face social prejudices stemming from intercultural and inter-generational conflicts, surviving social isolation is nothing new.