Film

Family Secrets

2014 · 1h 51m · Drama

The first Egyptian film about Homosexuality

IMDb

5.9

Family secrets is the first Egyptian movie openly discussing homosexuality. "Based on a true story", Marwan who is a homosexual goes through a spiral of despair after coming out to his sister who gets him to seek to understand and treat his homosexuality, he now has to deal with religion, society and psychiatrists and gets tested to the limits

Mohamed Mahran

Marwan

Salwa Mohamed Ali

Mother

Hassan Kreidli

Mazen

Bassant Shawqi

Omnia

Tarek Soliman

Father

Mohamed El Amrosy

Lobna Mahmoud

Ahmed Al Rafeay

• Hani FawziDirector
• Mohamed Abdel KaderWriter
• Ehab KhalilProducer
• Amr FaroukDirector of Photography
• Doaa FathyEditor

Release date

January 22, 2014

Status

Released

Original language

Arabic

Runtime

1h 51m

Genres

Drama