Film
Egyptian Joan of Arc
2016 · 1h 26m · Documentary
Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc
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Overview
Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation in ‘post post-revolutionary’ Egypt. Beginning with the return journey to Cairo of a filmmaker long absent from her own country, the film weaves a series of intimate portraits composed of interviews, poetic voice-over and dance; exploring themes of oppression, guilt and faith with Egyptian women, many of them artists. Reflecting on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ – in which the female figure is martyred by the patriarchal forces surrounding her – ‘Jeanne’ is a contemporary commentary that melds documentary and dance with poetic storytelling and myth to arrive at the core of the filmmaker’s enquiries into the circumstances of women in Egypt today.
Crew
- Iman KamelDirector
- Talal Al-MuhannaProducer
Details
- Release date
- January 1, 2016
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Arabic
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Documentary
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