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Chrysalis, is a 2020 Saudi movie, directed by Alaa Safi, and starring Alaa Safi, Marie Prenant. with a runtime of 4 minutes.
Chrysalis is a Moroccan short documentary that confronts the brutal intersection of identity and law during the COVID-19 lockdown. When dozens of LGBTQ individuals in Morocco were exposed online without consent, they faced the threat of imprisonment under the country's strict statutes. The film centers on Muhammad, a young man caught between the impossibility of coming out to his conservative family and the danger of remaining silent. Shot during a moment of unprecedented social isolation, Chrysalis is a quiet but devastating portrait of a community forced into a double confinement — one imposed by a pandemic, the other by the law. A searing human-rights document that resonates far beyond Morocco's borders.
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