Summary After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects. View more details
Directed : Jocelyne Saab
Written : Jocelyne Saab
Stars : Hanan Turk Fathi Abdulwahhab Sawsan Badr Mohamed Mounir
Genres : Drama Romance
Release date : Sep 5, 2006
Countries of origin : France Egypt Lebanon
Official sites : Official Facebook Trailer
Language : Arabic
Production companies : Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP)
Summary After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects. View more details
Genres : Drama Romance
Release date : Sep 5, 2006
Countries of origin : France Egypt Lebanon
Official sites : Official Facebook Trailer
Language : Arabic
Production companies : Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP)
