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When "Mr Gay Syria" premiered at the Sheffield Film Ftival England this June, took viewers by surprise.

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Mr Gay Syria: Directed by Ayse Toprak. Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refuge who are tryg to rebuild their liv. He is a barber Istanbul, livg a double life between his nservative fay and his gay inty. Mahmoud is the founr of Syria's LGBTI movement and is a refugee Berl. What brgs them together is a dream: to participate an ternatnal bety ntt as an pe om their trapped liv and an answer to their visibily. Will the dream e te or will the refugee crisis and the harsh nsequenc of beg gay the Mlim world shatter to piec?" data-id="ma * mr gay syria *

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"Mr Gay Syria, " a documentary about the liv of Syrian LGBTI refuge Turkey premiered England at the Sheffield Film Ftival this June.

MR. GAY SYRIA

Director: Ayse Toprak Year: 2017 Origal language: Arabic, English, Turkish, German Mr. Gay Syria follows two gay Syrian refuge who are tryg to rebuild… * mr gay syria *

Director Ayse Toprak follows two gay Syrian refuge, who fd humor and iendship tryg tim. When “Mr Gay Syria” premiered at the Sheffield Film Ftival England this June, took viewers by surprise.

FDG 'MR GAY SYRIA': NEW FILM HIGHLIGHTS ABE OF LGBTQ SYRIANS

Mr. Gay World ntt promis two gay Syrian refuge Istanbul an pe om their liv and an answer to visibily. A hidn view of the refugee crisis, a story of stayg alive and turng the sadns and trac of physil/verbal vlence to a ristance tool and a celebratn of life. * mr gay syria *

For starters, the documentary revolv around a ltle-spoken of muny: gay Syrian refuge.

Married wh a child, 24-year-old Sabat liv Istanbul where, unlike Syria, homosexualy isn’t outlawed – the UNHCR timat 1, 900 LGBTI refuge are harbored Turkey – but the muny is still vulnerable. Hasso, meanwhile, is a Syrian refugee and LGBTI activist livg Berl on a missn to send the first Mr Gay Syria to Mr Gay World 2016, to raise awarens of LGBTI issu Syria.

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In the midst of war, a Syrian journalist sets out to fd Syria's "Mr Gay" to send to an ternatnal bety pageant. * mr gay syria *

But nontg LGBTI issu isn’t the only way that “Mr Gay Syria” surpris. The Mr Gay Syria and Mr Gay World pageants were really ed as a narrative thread to talk about the (LGBTI) issu and the liv of the characters.

MR GAY SYRIA

One of the first thgs he said was: “I’m gay. I learned later that he is a big LGBTI activist Syria – and he had this dream to take LGBTI Syrian men to an ternatnal ntt lled Mr Gay World.

He knew that unls he did somethg outrageo, like takg the first Syrian to Mr Gay World, no one would listen to his e. Jt bee they’re gay don’t mean they aren’t refuge – they all share a mon sty wh lns of Syrian refuge, alg wh nflict beyond their ntrol and fdg new hom where they n feel like they belong.

He’s young, his early 20s, and livg a double life between his very nservative fay on the outskirts of Istanbul and his gay life the middle of the cy.

MR. GAY SYRIA

What he’s gog through as a gay man – married to a woman, livg a nservative world, and what that woman is gog through as well – is so mon the Arab world. He appli for Mr Gay Syria and, his terview, the (judg) ask him: “Is out of urage or spair that you’re attendg this ntt?

And Mr Gay Syria gave that to them.

We know our way around Turkey, so filmg isn’t so hard, but we didn’t advertise to the police that we are filmg a gay story. I don’t know what would have happened if we told them was a gay film. The gay pri para, for example, ed to have more than 100, 000 people jo, om all walks of life.

AYşE TOPRAK ON HER GROUNDBREAKG DOCUMENTARY MR. GAY SYRIA

That’s why Mr Gay Syria is such a powerful muny. Gay World ntt promis two gay Syrian refuge Istanbul an pe om their liv and an answer to visibily.

From arrts to honor killgs to ld-blood murrs, when Mahmoud Hasso saw the rights of Syria's lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny trampled the btal civil war, he wanted to fd a way to tell the the midst of war, Hasso set out to fd Syria's "Mr Gay" to send to an ternatnal bety pageant.

Hasso, a Syrian journalist and gay rights mpaigner, saw LGBTQ people targeted by all sis Syria's six-year-old nflict. A scene om the new documentary "Mr Gay Syria"L Films D'Antoe/Co Film/Toprak Film"Wh the war, genr-based vlence reached a peak, " said Hasso, 42.

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