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By Wendy Ide2020-12-21T14:09:00+00:00
Behind the scenes at Egypt’s unorthodox training camp for champion female weightlifters
‘Lift Like A Girl’
Dir/scr. Mayya Zayed. Egypt, Germany, Denmark. 2020. 92 mins
Filmed over the course of four years, this scattershot but engaging documentary follows Zebiba (’raisin’ in Arabic), the latest potential Egyptian female weight-lighting champion to come from the stable of unorthodox coach Captain Ramadan. In fact, to call it a stable is misleading in that it suggests that the Captain’s training facilities have a roof. Rather, the wizened, bluntly forthright Captain shapes the weightlifters of the future in a rubble-filled vacant lot next to the screaming traffic of an Alexandria highway. Although cluttered in its approach, the film is deceptively deep: covering sporting ambitions; gender roles and the motivating power of a certain kind of personality.

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