Amrou Al-Kadhi 🦄
@Glamrou
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Writer / Performer / Filmmaker - Life as a Unicorn @HarperCollins - LAYLA | Sundance 2024 - Little America @AppleTV - Rep: CAA & Grandview. THEY/THEM
London
Joined September 2010
Still cannot believe that I even get to say this, but my debut feature film, LAYLA, is having its World Premiere @sundancefest in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. A total dream come true. Queer Arab cinema for life! #Sundance24
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My final column for @AttitudeMag after so many years! I'm emotional! This one is on storytelling as a political practice, collective empathy, and finding hope in a hopeless world. https://t.co/hPde7VbgtD
attitude.co.uk
For their final Attitude column, Amrou Al-Kadhi reflects on the healing power of writing and the "incredibly freeing" escape of drag
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ORIGINAL SIN is playing @BFI #londonfilmfestival next week - I’m so proud of this film! Let me know if you get to check it out. It’s been like excavating one of my deepest nightmares and expunging it onto the screen 🩸 commissioned by #WePresents
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conservatives and their pageantry, god these people get camp
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they are all just so unchic
This is a declaration of independence. Today, lesbian gay and bisexual people have a new global organisation Learn more at https://t.co/m7Kvp0lkly
#LGBInternational
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There is not a single thing in here that Jimmy Kimmel said that is a lie. What a fucking travesty.
Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know. This is also what Jimmy Kimmel said the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated: “Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one
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- Original Sin by Amrou Al-Kadhi Roots and Branches - Chikha by Zahoua Raji & Ayoub Layoussifi These films highlight the power, diversity, and resilience of Arab cinema — we couldn’t be prouder! #ACC #ArabCinemaCenter #BFILondonFilmFestival #SupportArabCinema
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The world is terrifying, I am constantly scared. But I will still try and spread joy and hope when and where I can. So excited to be performing @EartHackney on the 18th October. See you there London! So excited about this one ♥️ https://t.co/3Q524PH6q7
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oh how to be an artist and not punish yourself for past creative mistakes, please send help if you know the remedy, i'm currently looping into the vortex
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I’m playing Los Angeles on the 1st October! Come one, come all!
elysiantheater.com
Renowned Iraqi queen Glamrou, and renowned Iraqi queen, Glamrou's mother, fight for the spotlight with their competing narratives of what really happened. Come get lost in this drag hall of mirrors,...
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I’m playing Los Angeles on the 1st October! Come one, come all!
elysiantheater.com
Renowned Iraqi queen Glamrou, and renowned Iraqi queen, Glamrou's mother, fight for the spotlight with their competing narratives of what really happened. Come get lost in this drag hall of mirrors,...
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ORIGINAL SIN, my latest short film, is playing @BFI #LondonFilmFestival & @ASFFest this fall in the UK - I purged this one from my guts, it's my Almodóvarian nightmare come to life!
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Watching Bend it Like Beckham now it's on Netflix, and honestly, I think this might be the only British film that has in some way represented me? It was a really long time ago lol
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Glamrou is touring the UK! Starting with one night in Edinburgh next month! Tickets here 💞 https://t.co/cU4flnL36S 💞 Genuinely cannot wait! See you on the road 💋
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Glamrou is touring the UK! Starting with one night in Edinburgh next month! Tickets here 💞 https://t.co/cU4flnL36S 💞 Genuinely cannot wait! See you on the road 💋
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"Layla," which opened the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, is a fun, flashy, and deeply tender debut from Amrou Al-Kadhi. A queer Arab drag story full of love, identity, and defiance. Now streaming on @Hulu. Read more: https://t.co/6WX8GERVUG
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Amrou Al-Kadhi’s LAYLA from Sundance and London film festivals is on Hulu.
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There is no internet. No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage. I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.” Not because anyone is listening, but because to die unheard
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I wouldn't wish the severity of pure OCD I have on my worst enemy. It's like living in a mental prison. I'm so tired :(
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i actually just hate him so much
If you want to live in the UK, you should speak English. That’s common sense. So we’re raising English language requirements across every main immigration route.
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