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Up to now, few Egyptian features have received quite this kind of major festival spotlight, and beyond Amin’s engaging filmmaking style and flair with actors (most of the cast members are non-professionals),
Souad unveils a whole world as well as, crucially, a young female-centered perspective that are worth discovering for the first time. That world is of course rife with the challenges of being a young woman in a majority Islamic country, but it is also subjected to the distorting effects of social media, a topic examined in great damning detail here.