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Meanwhile, two girls at the madrasa caught by the headmistress for adorning themselves with nail polish and marker-drawn ankle tattoos are surprised when Wadjda, in keeping with her new pious image, does not stand with them by testifying in their favor. Wadjda's efforts at memorization impress her teacher, and she wins the competition.
It was the first film by a female Arabic speaker to confront the taboo of sexual violence against Arab women, who are frequently forced into silence to preserve their family’s honor. [3] The film chronicles the stories of five women who experienced sexual abuse as young girls, some of them being victimized by their own family members.
Farha (Arabic: فرحة, romanized: Farḥa) is a 2021 internationally co-produced historical drama film written and directed by Darin J. Sallam. [1] The film depicts a Palestinian girl's coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. Sallam based the screenplay on a true story that she was ...
Egyptian Arabic 678 (released internationally as Cairo 6,7,8 ) is a 2010 Egyptian political thriller film written and directed by Mohamed Diab . The film focuses on the daily public sexual harassment of three women of different social backgrounds in Egypt.
Four Daughters (Arabic: بنات ألفة, romanized: Banāt Olfa, French: Les Filles d'Olfa, lit. 'Olfa's Daughters') is a 2023 Arabic-language documentary film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. [3] The film tells the story of a Tunisian family after two of four daughters leave to join Daesh fighters in Libya.
The movie holds some controversy in the fact that it is about a minor sect of Syrians, the Syrian Christians and Syrian Jews. Damascus with Love is a story about the life of a young Jewish girl whose father reveals some past secrets to, and so decides to look for the truth in magical Damascus. This movie was translated and aired in the UK on ...
Girl 6 is a 1996 American black comedy film produced and directed by Spike Lee. The film stars Theresa Randle , Isaiah Washington , and Lee. Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay, making it the first film directed by Lee that he did not also write.
In Between (Arabic: بَر بَحَر, romanized: Bar Baḥr, lit. 'Land, Sea'; Hebrew : לא פה, לא שם , lit. 'Not Here, Not There') is a 2016 Palestinian-Israeli-French film directed by Maysaloun Hamoud , about three women of Palestinian heritage sharing a flat in Tel Aviv .