The String
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Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2009-05-12
Runtime: 93 mins
Director: Mehdi Ben Attia
Spoken language: Français
Genres: Romance, Drama
Original title: The String
Production Companies: Need Productions, Propaganda Pictures, Mille et une productions
Production Countries: France, Belgium, Tunisia
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