GIGOLO

Year: 2005
USA: Picture This! Entertainment
Cast: Salim Kechiouche, Amanda Lear, Stephane Rolland, Gilles Gleizes, Stefanie Kirchner, Saury Foulah, Samantha Avrillaud
Director: Bastian Schweitzer
Countries: Germany / Switzerland
USA: 15 mins
USA Release Date: 18 August 2006 (Limited Release - Los Angeles)
USA Release Date: 21 July 2006 (Limited Release - New York)
US Distributor
Synopsis

Karim (Salim Kechiouche), a young male prostitute of Arab descent, makes his living moving amongst Paris' wealthy and jet-set. As his anger and frustration with cold sex and glamour grow, Karim traces with pitiless honesty the lines of his painful past.

The story of GIGOLO is a surprising metaphor for the anger, the confusion, the frustration and the vulnerability experienced by many young Arabs in France and leading to the violent riots which occurred recently in France.