Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)
April 13, 2011Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt)
Call Number: VHS01655
by Tahani Rached; Eric Michel; National Film Board of Canada.;
Format: VHS
Language: French
Publisher: [Montréal] : Office national du film du Canada, ©1997.
Notes: (90 min) This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
Summary: How can people get along when their beliefs collide? Tahani Rached probes this question in Quatre femmes d’Égypte (Four Women of Egypt), a portrait of four friends who couldn’t be more different. Muslim, Christian, or non-religious, they all love their country but have radically different visions of what that society should be, ranging from a secular or socialist state to an Islamic one. This moving film won the public award and the prize for feature-length documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival in Odivelas, Portugal, and the audience award and the prize for best documentary at the Arab Screen Independent Film Festival in London, England. It also screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998.
OCLC #: 437575653
Added: April 13, 2011
This item is part of the Ralph H. Wolfe Collection
