The film was originally conceived as a portrait of Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, the well-known Egyptian doctor, writer, and women’s rights activist. But the director was disappointed by the encounter with the woman who had been her great role model. Instead, she set out to discover what life means to Egyptian women by visiting her female relatives. Her mother, aunts, and neighbors talk about life as a married woman, about the traditional clitoridectomy of girls, about love and sexuality. The result is a very impressive and extremely personal film.

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The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

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Documentary about the world of the Japanese geisha. Unattainable by all but the wealthy and powerful...

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After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siber...

Four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views listen to one an...

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