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Title: Tea with Adonis
Direction: Selim Mourad
Cast: Adonis Khattar, Selim Mourad, Sarah Ghanimeh, Karim Ghorayeb, Rakan Himadeh, Hamz\u00e9 Houjeyri, Tania Kammoun
Production: Selim Mourad
Distribution: The Open Reel
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 35\u2019
Country: Lebanon
Year: 2022
O.V. in Arabic. Subtitles in Spanish<\/p>\n
Festivals: Beirut (documentaries), Berlin (cinema of the SWANA countries), Berl\u00edn (LGBTIQ+), Clermont-Ferrand , Paris (Arab World Institute)<\/p>\n
First showing in Spain<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Adonis is a queer seventy-three-year-old man. He currently lives in the Ashrafieh district of Beirut. He continues to water his numerous plants daily and host his numerous friends for cheerful dinners every other week. Adonis is full of stories from the sixties, seventies, eighties and the nineties. Though he did not live continuously in the country, he has been travelling the world, with constant visits to his homeland. Conversations with him can easily switch from academic intricacies to plain old gossip about sexual matters or unresolved crimes. Ameer is a thirty-something younger man who wants to gather stories and anecdotes from Adonis. He feels the Lebanese queer past hasn\u2019t been archived well enough so he views Adonis as the golden hen. However, when he notices Adonis has it easier to be physically nude than to reveal the full nudity of his feelings, he starts feeling frustrated. What else to expect, would Adonis say, from someone who always lived a double life? <\/p>\n<\/div>