• Sep 06, 2006
  • 112 min
  • Full-HD

Dunia (2006)

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.

Category
Country
Egypt France Lebanon
Companies
Catherine Dussart Productions

Hanan Turk

Dunia

Mohamed Mounir

Beshir

Sawsan Badr

Arwa

Fathy Abdel Wahab

Mamdouh

Aaidah Riyadh

Inayate

Youssef Ismail

Antar

Khaled El Sawy

Hazem

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