“Are you happily married?” “Were you married off way too young?” “Are girls not allowed to love?” Few people dare to ask similar questions in southern Egypt – except for the all-female street theater troupe in remote Barsha village.
“They surprise their audience, but I clearly remember the first time they surprised me. I thought: ‘How are these girls so free, so eloquent and so daring? In every way?’” recalled Nada Riyadh, who directed “The Brink of Dreams” with Ayman El Amir.
“These young women, brought up in very conservative communities and economically restrictive situations, seemed freer than us. We went: ‘What is happening?!’ Even in Cairo, people don’t confront others like that.”
“With them, it’s always interactive. They are expressing themselves, but they also demand interaction, challenging long-standing traditions,” added El Amir.
“We are married, so they were asking us about that too. We would answer honestly and...
“They surprise their audience, but I clearly remember the first time they surprised me. I thought: ‘How are these girls so free, so eloquent and so daring? In every way?’” recalled Nada Riyadh, who directed “The Brink of Dreams” with Ayman El Amir.
“These young women, brought up in very conservative communities and economically restrictive situations, seemed freer than us. We went: ‘What is happening?!’ Even in Cairo, people don’t confront others like that.”
“With them, it’s always interactive. They are expressing themselves, but they also demand interaction, challenging long-standing traditions,” added El Amir.
“We are married, so they were asking us about that too. We would answer honestly and...
- 5/15/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
For their exquisitely executed pitch of their animation project, producer Valérie Montmartin and director Sarah Van Den Boom were handsomely rewarded. At the M:brane financing forum for youth media in Malmö, Sweden, pitching is not only a centrepiece, but is also regarded as an art form in itself and rewarded as such by an expert jury. The forum’s Noble Art of Pitching initiative was introduced at the 2020 edition, when the accolade went to Danish animator-director Karsten Mungo Madsen for his calm and graceful presentation of the complex themes of his Tiny Films About Sorrow and Courage project. While weighing up this year's 26 entries (see the news), the jury – comprising producer Nicholas Sando, of Filmbin, Norway; Mette-Ann Schepelern, CEO of Magma Film & TV, Denmark; and Peter Hiltunen, director of Kulturakademin, Sweden – was “blown away” by a pitch from France with “amazing visuals and a clear and...
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