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.
Stars: Hanan Turk, Mohamed Mounir, Aaidah Riyadh, Fathy Abdel Wahab, Sawsan Badr, Soraya Ibrahim
Crew: Jocelyne Saab (Director), Jocelyne Saab (Writer), Jocelyne Saab (Producer), Catherine Dussart (Producer), Patrick Leygonie (Original Music Composer), Jean-Pierre Mas (Original Music Composer)
Country: Egypt, France, Lebanon
Language: العربية
Studio: Catherine Dussart Productions
Runtime: 112 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 06, 2006
IMDb: 5.9
Keywords:woman director
