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Halal Love

2016 · 95 min

A warm, wry look at desire and faith, balancing comic absurdity with genuine tenderness and frustration.

Directed by
Assad Fouladkar
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Berlin Badr, Christy Bared, Fadia Abi Chahine
Overview
Four tragicomic interconnected stories about how devoted Muslim men and women are trying to manage their love life and desires without breaking any religious rules.

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Directed by
Assad Fouladkar
Genres
Romance, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Berlin Badr, Christy Bared, Fadia Abi Chahine
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • faith
  • family
  • gender
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour7
Realism8
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
romance, comedy, drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Berlin Badr, Christy Bared, Fadia Abi Chahine, Darine Hamze, Zeinab Hind Khadra, Hussein Mokadem, Mirna Moukarzel, Ali Sammoury
Cinematography
Lutz Reitemeier
Runtime
95 min
Country
Lebanon, Germany
Languages
Arabic

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