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A visit to a cosmetic-surgery clinic and the discovery of a lump in his testicle and an abscess in his mouth confront filmmaker Selim Mourad with transience and decay in this unashamedly navel-gazing film essay.‘Selim from Beirut’ is the last in a long list of names of extinct species he recites during a loveless Grindr meet up.
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A visit to a cosmetic-surgery clinic and the discovery of a lump in his testicle and an abscess in his mouth confront filmmaker Selim Mourad with transience and decay in this unashamedly navel-gazing film essay. ‘Selim from Beirut’ is the last in a long list of names of extinct species he recites during a loveless Grindr meet up.
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- Release date
- Feb 4, 2021
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
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- Language
- Arabic, French
- Country
- Lebanon
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