Cairo Classics · 44th Edition
A Day for Women
Director
Kamla Abo Zekry
Country
Egypt
Runtime
1 h 51 min
Language
Arabic
Synopsis
A new swimming pool opens in a Cairo district, with the announcement that Sundays will be only for females. This causes ripples throughout the local community, while three women - Shamiya, Azza, and Lula - assess their varying lives.
Cast
Elham Shahin, Nahed El Sebai, Nelly Karim, Mahmoud Hemida, Ahmed El Fishawy
Screenplay
Hanaa Attia
Producers
Elham Shahin
About the Director
An Egyptian film director whose extensive oeuvre encompasses several films, including; MALEK WE KETABA (2005) and A’N EL ESHQ WEL HAWA (2006), WAHED SEFR (2009), 18 DAYS (2011), and A DAY FOR WOMEN (2016) which opened the 38th edition of CIFF. Kamla Abo Zekry’s repertoire of TV drama includes A GIRL NAMED ZAT in 2013, SEGN EL NESA in 2014,WAHET EL GHOROUB in 2017. In 2020, the drama hit 100 WESH, and recently in BETOLOU’ EL ROUH in Ramadan 2022.
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