Philip Delmaar

A coming-out drama devoid of joy or affirmation, ‘El Houb’ looks at an angst-ridden gay Arab immigrant’s life in Amsterdam. While its story trips fluidly back and forth in time, much of the action in Shariff Nasr’s drama El Houb remains, like the film’s Moroccan-Dutch protagonist Karim, confined to a single location: the Amsterdam apartment […]