6. Queer Imaginaries and the Essay Film: The Cinema of Raed Rafei
“Eccomi … Eccoti” (Here I am … Here you are) | 68 mins | Lebanon | 2017
Two men. Two realities. And a quest for a common future in a world beset with real and imaginary boundaries. Eccomi … Eccoti unfolds as a virtual road trip navigating between Italy and Lebanon. On one side, the lure of Europe, a presumed safe haven for homosexuals, and on the other, a longing for one’s roots.

