A 17-minute gut-punch about loving a country that doesn't love you back.
An unexpected discovery forces Britannia, a queer Libyan teenager, to question whether to stay or flee his beloved homeland.
Acting
Ali Gadema's Baba—proud, fragile, unknowable.
Cinematography
Libya's beauty weaponized against its queer citizens.
Writing
17 minutes, zero wasted frames.
Director
Sam Arbor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Tunisia standing in for Libya—director Sam Arbor couldn't safely film in the country itself. The displacement is meta.
The title 'Baba' (dad) deliberately centers the father rather than Britannia—this is his tragedy too, whether he deserves it or not.
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