One Like Him

Karim has carried a secret for twenty years, and tonight he means to tell Ramzi, his childhood friend and first love, the truth about the single moment that changed both of their lives. But the words do not come easily, and as the two men talk, the conversation slips loose from ordinary logic and turns increasingly surreal, as if memory itself were rearranging the room around them. Caitlin McLeod's Arabic-language short, shot in Jordan, stars Kais Nashif and Loai Noufi as two men separated by time, silence, and everything left unsaid. One Like Him screened widely on the international queer circuit, including Frameline, Outfest Fusion, Mill Valley, Wicked Queer, and the Arab Film Festival in Berlin, and won Best LGBTQ+ Film at the North East Film Festival and a jury award at Brussels' Tels Quels Festival.