Dear Ward
Narrative Short | Duration: 0:10:00 | Egypt
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Description: A short fiction film, about a young woman, recalls scenes from her circumcision on her wedding night and her memories with her mother and father on that day, the film is based on an intermittent montage between the present and the past and what goes on in the girl's mind and hurts her at that moment that is supposed to be her happiest moments, with an audiotape of a radio recording of a true story of a girl from Upper Egypt, in which she tells her bitter experience with circumcision and the pain she suffered throughout her life, the circumcision is one of the most violent crimes committed against women in the Arab world.
Filmmaker Bio:
Marwa El Sharkawy Egyptian filmmaker, born in 1989., graduated from Faculty Of Mass Communication - Cairo University, in 2010, studied filmmaking at Cinedelta School in Alexandria and Creative documentary workshop which supported by Cairo International Women's Film Festival. she directed three short documentaries “The land of gold”, “A woman that looks out the window.”, and “A Happy journey” which were screened at several international festivals, including Luxor African Film Festival and the French festival Très Court, her feature film “Forgotten dreams” won the best documentary film award at the International Film Festival in Iran and with a support grant from the Cairo International Women's Film Festival, UNFPA produced her first short drama film ("Dear Ward") on the issue of female circumcision, also she directed several documentaries for several channels such as BBC and Al Jazeera Documentary. |