All My Life (2008 film)

All My Life Arabic translit. Toul Omry French Toute ma vie , is a 2008 Egyptian film by Maher Sabry. It is noted as being the first film to handle the subject of male homosexuality and the status of homosexuals in Egypt.citation needed While a work of fiction, Sabry made efforts to use reallife influences from his own experiences to the 2001 arrests of the Cairo 52 to keep the portrayal of conditions for homosexuals in Egypt accurate.

While previously in Egyptian film, gay characters had visbility in general in minor roles, as in The Bathhouse of Malatily 1973, Alexandria Why? 1978, Mendiants et Orgueilleux 1991, Marcides 1993 and, recently, The Yacoubian Building 2007, All My Life was the first allgay film to be released.citation needed Sheikh Nasr Faryd Wasel, exMufti of Egypt, called for the destruction of the film, stating these films are the gateway to debauchery, to committing that forbidden by Allah and propagate deviant social behaviors. Though he expressed desire for the film to be suppressed and held from film festivals, it was screened at various film festivals around the world in such cities as San Francisco, New York, Athens, Melbourne, Sydney, Bangalore and Ljubljana. ........

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