Some Like It Veiled (2017)

Armand and Leila, students at Science Po, are a young couple. They plan to go to New York to do their internship at the United Nations. But when Mahmoud, Leila's big brother, returns from a long stay in Yemen, which radically transformed him, he is opposed to his sister's love relationship and decides to remove him at any cost from Armand. To enter Mahmoud and see again Leila, Armand has no choice: he must slip the integral veil! The next day, a certain Scheherazade with a veiled face rings at the door of Leila, and she will not leave Mahmoud indifferent ...

Released June 28, 2017 88 min 7+

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Keywords: imdb.man-in-drag, imdb.brother-sister-conflict, imdb.man-pretending-to-be-a-woman, imdb.muslim-brotherhood, imdb.political-science-student, imdb.islamic-extremism, imdb.muslim-extremist + 25 more, imdb.chador, imdb.abusive-brother, imdb.afghan-immigrants, imdb.reference-to-victor-hugo, imdb.passport, imdb.burning-passport, imdb.iranian-couple, imdb.iranian-diaspora, imdb.torn-photograph, imdb.muslim-convert, imdb.reference-to-ayatollah-khomeini, imdb.bella-ciao, imdb.disguised-in-hijab, imdb.hijab, imdb.sunni-versus-shia-islam, imdb.ending-at-airport, imdb.mock-wedding, imdb.reference-to-the-koran, imdb.koran-quotation, imdb.singing-in-a-car, imdb.boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, imdb.paris-france, imdb.religious-intolerance, imdb.airport, aspectratio.2-35-1