Genderqueer Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon’s guerrilla-style documentary Birds of the Borderlands is an intense piece of filmmaking that powerfully explores LGBTIQ communities in the Middle East through the experiences of four queer Arabs: Hiba, Youssef, Rasha, and Khalaf.
As Bryon becomes more entangled in the struggles of these ‘birds of the borderlands’ – blurring the lines between lover, friend, filmmaker, and activist – tensions explode and a dangerous crisis emerges.