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Organically presented inner monologues drive home the fragility of life and the yearning for self-worth in Lebanese director George Peter Barbari s impressive debut.
Jay Weissberg, provided by
and her film
a combative study of sexual assault in contemporary Egypt and an examination of the self.
Alqadi s film begins The inspiration for it
the public rape of Alqadi s
friend on the night an explosion of violence against women rippled through Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
As the Palestinian-raised Alqadi begins to document protests and anti-rape patrols in the city, she also turns the camera on herself after she becomes pregnant, exploring what it means to be a woman in the Middle East. As she notes in her
director’s
statement, her hope for the film is to “open a wider debate that can encourage women to show their power, demand their rights
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