![]() Omar may have been able to immigrate to London the legal way but he can still sympathise with being gay and an Arab in a alien culture. The two men bond, not over sex, but the commonality of their backgrounds. Marco’s accent gives him away and once he admits his real heritage to Omar he is able to open up and share the traumas of the last few months getting to London. It’s a lonely life in which he spends most of his time working and ignoring his mother’s phone calls from back home. His client this particular night is Omar ( Zed Josef) a successful businessman from Lebanon who has been living in London for the past decade. ![]() ![]() Online where he advertises his services he adopts the name of Marco ( Marwan Kaabour) and claiming he is from Barcelona, as admitting to being a gay Syrian refugee will not only limit his number of clients, but also expose him to potential harm. One month ago the Authorities released him from the Detention Center onto the streets with just £30, and a future appointment with the Home Office to plead his case. ![]() ![]() Acclaimed writer Saleem Haddad’s first foray into filmmaking MARCO is a heartbreaking tale about the plight of a undocumented Syrian LGBTQ refugee in London who becomes a sex worker simply so he can afford to eat.Īfter a long arduous journey by way of Turkey and the Refugee Camp in Calais to being a stowaway in a shipping container, Ahmed arrived in London a few months. ![]()
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