SYNOPSIS
Not quite the Taliban is a documentary about one man's frustration with his generation of young "modern" Arabs who appear Western, but are more conservative than the traditional Arabs. While there are many films about hypocrisy in the Middle East made by Western filmmakers, Not Quite the Taliban is the first to be made by an Arab who has put himself on the line by speaking up about the taboos.
Not Quite the Taliban chronicles the journey of Fadi, a young Arab filmmaker, as he makes a documentary about the double standards in Dubai, the place he's called home all his life and the flagship of Arab modernity where covered women walk side by side with call girls everyone pretends aren't there. It is a contradictory world of Arabs whose lives revolve around work, shopping and clubbing. Educated Arabs who laugh at their inability to construct one full sentence in Arabic but use their traditions as an excuse to deny what happens behind closed doors.
Fadi Hindash confronts the contemporary generation of 'westernized' Arabs with a taboo. What happens when you reveal your sexual orientation to those 'modern' Arabs?
PRESS»
Interview with Simone Sebastian, Satellite Voices, March 29, 2011
Documentary filmmaker Fadi Hindash
Interview with Sudha Pillai, Bangalore Mirror, February 26, 2011
Special: Not quite the Taliban
Interview with Jordan Arseneault, 2B Mag, March 9, 2011
The Arab World and hope for LGBT Rights: Film-maker Fadi Hindash in Conversation
Interview with Dan Littauer, Gay Middle East, April 15, 2011
Arab, western values and sexual diversity - a synthesis?
FILMMAKER PROFILE»
Fadi Hindash is a screenwriter and director of Lebanese/Palestinian origin living in Dubai. His first short movie, The Sound of Applause (2005), was nominated for Best Narrative Short at the Rome Film Festival while his first feature-length documentary, Not Quite the Taliban, was an official selection at many human rights film festivals including Movies That Matter 2010 in the Netherlands. It was also nominated for Best Documentary Noor Award at the Arab Film Festival in San Francisco and was screened all over the world in places such as Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Japan, India and Israel. Hindash is a Berlinale Talent Campus alumnus and his current documentary, Men of Faith, was selected for the Doc Station of the 2010 Berlinale. Both Not Quite the Taliban and Men of Faith were developed at Greenhouse Documentary Program. Hindash is also involved in fiction. His first script, A Monster is Born, was developed at the Binger Filmlab in 2008.
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