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Naz + Maalik
2014
Synopsis
Naz and Maalik are friends, classmates, business partners, and lovers. As the two closeted Muslim teens go about their regular daily routine on a Friday afternoon in Brooklyn, they arouse the suspicions of an undercover FBI agent who begins to track them.
Editorial
Hustling through the streets of New York, this breezy debut feature from writer-director Jay Dockendorf unfurls across a single summer’s day. With its newcomer leads making for easy, loose-limbed company, Naz + Maalik weighs the price of tenderness and love against the strictures of expectation.