| Salvation Army | |
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| Directed by | Abdellah Taia |
| Written by | Abdellah Taia |
| Starring | Said Mrini, Karim Ait M'Hand, Amine Ennaji |
| Cinematography | Agnès Godard |
| Edited by | Françoise Tourmen |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Salvation Army is a 2013 French-Swiss-Moroccan drama film written and directed by Abdellah Taia in his directorial debut. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] It is an adaptation of Taia's 2006 autobiographical novel of the same name. [8] [9] [10] [11] Taia submitted the controversial film's original screenplay to the National Centre for Moroccan Cinema, hoping it would be released in Morocco. [12] The film won multiple awards [13] and was screened at the Venice Film Festival. [9] [12] [14]
The film follows Abdellah, a young Moroccan gay man with a distant father, a demanding mother, an older brother he looks up to. Abdellah is trying to find his way in a society that denies his sexuality. Once he leaves to college in Geneva he finds freedom but must come to terms with the loss of his homeland. [15]