Mathias Vergels

A Belgian teen living with his disillusioned single mother soon becomes involved in a love-crush relationship with the young man next door.

Tracking the unlikely love affair of a hunky, closeted gay Muslim from a traditional Turkish family and a blond Belgian boy, Mixed Kebab vividly delves into class, culture and bigotry. Ibrahim lives a double-life, at once a dutifully religious Muslim, and also a casual drug dealer and closeted gay man. When Ibrahim flies off to Turkey to meet his future wife he brings his stunning friend Kevin, and soon an illicit love affair develops between the two men. Faced with no choice but to navigate between these two opposing worlds, things soon come to an explosive crossroad. Exciting, sexy and endlessly thought-provoking, Mixed Kebab is about a young man caught not just between two worlds, but four; traditional and modern, gay and straight.