The String

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.

Director: Mehdi Ben Attia

Cast: Claude Cardinale, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Salim Kéchiouche, Driss Ramdi, Ramla Ayari, Ali Mrabet, Abir Bennani, Rihab Mejri

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