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Every month is Pride month at Spectacle, but in June 2025 we are nonetheless honored to screen two films by novelist and director Abdellah Taïa, the first openly gay filmmaker from Morocco. This series includes a limited engagement of Taïa’s (as of yet undistributed) new feature CABO NEGRO, plus screenings of his notorious - and still underappreciated - autobiographical drama SALVATION ARMY, made a decade earlier.
“My neuroses are, at some level, what we might call my creativity. But what I produce artistically does not help me in any way in my real life. Nothing is resolved. Everything is complex, complicated. I sincerely believe that there is only love to heal and soothe troubled souls… To me, (books and films) have the same source: the wonderful Egyptian films that I discovered with my family on Moroccan television during my childhood. Everything comes from images. For years, my brain has been structured from images of films I thought and rethought, in a manner at once naïve and serious. I will continue to write books inspired by images — and by my neuroses, of course.” - Abdellah Taïa, The New York Times