Horizon of Arab Cinema · 43rd Edition
From Cairo
Director
Halal Galal
Country
Egypt
Runtime
1 h 5 min
Language
Arabic
Premiere
World Premiere
Synopsis
Heba is a photojournalist, artist and single mother of Ward. She struggles to make ends meet by working as a photojournalist at a newspaper but her passion for conceptual art. In a therapeutic exchange, Heba meets women to understand their burdens and manifest them in a conceptual image. One of them is Aya, who is a young woman who lost her parents at a young age and tried to conform to expectations by getting veiled
Producers
Kesmat Elsayed
About the Director
An Egyptian filmmaker (writer, director and producer). She is the founder and executive director of SEMAT Production & Distribution supporting Alternative/Independent Cinema in Egypt. She has led SEMAT, a cultural hub with links to a number of civil society organizations involved in the creative sector and youth as well as women organizations in Egypt/the Arab Region. Hala produced more than 10 films for first time directors. Her long documentary ‘Women ChitChat’ won the Silver Prize at the Arab Rotterdam Film Festival
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