Maryam Touzani tackles LGBTQ+ love and celebrates embroidery craft in ‘The Blue Caftan’

The Blue Caftan

In her latest film, “The Blue Caftan,” Moroccan director Maryam Touzani delicately weaves intricate, overlapping tales of love, both traditional and largely taboo for many in her country and its region as she tells the story of a woman and her secretly gay husband who together run a shop making caftans. The marriage grows more complicated when … Read more