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Dunia

51 %|Sep 6, 2006|Drama, Romance

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.

Featured Crew

Jocelyne Saab
Director
Jocelyne Saab
Writer
Jocelyne Saab
Producer
Catherine Dussart
Producer
Patrick Leygonie
Original Music Composer
Jean-Pierre Mas
Original Music Composer
Jacques Bouquin
Director of Photography
Claude Reznik
Editor