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During the endless waiting in the Amsterdam AZC, gay Iranian Milad (30) tries to make the best of it together with his friends Arman (34) and Radfan (27). To get the residents in the AZC more in touch with each other, they decide to organize a poetry night. At the same time, gay Jurre (24) starts an internship at COA. He would like to do something good for Milad out of a sense of guilt about his privileges. When he hears about the poetry evening Milad and his friends want to organize, he decides to get involved, but soon finds out that his good intentions backfire.
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It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

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