كلمة المخرج

ملاحظة المنتج

This film poses the question: On our way to adulthood, can we ever preserve our freedom? We believe the story of these girls allows for the examination of the fleeting transition between childhood and womanhood; between the imaginations of the girls and their reality, their future and their present, transcending borders of genre and form. A penetration of fiction into reality and of reality into fiction. We aim to enter the bubble of the world of this group of youths, chasing the wildness and elusiveness of being young. Their light-heartedness stands in stark contrast with their harsh reality. In this coming-of-age story, we focus on these girls, who emanate strength, resilience, intelligence, courage, and love for each other. A hybrid of documentary aesthetic and unscripted narrative, depicting real people in an insular rural community, in which non-professional actors play versions of themselves. This will allow us to explore the border between tragedy and freedom, control and submission, truth and lies, and the limitations and power of cinema.

فيلموغرافيا المنتج

Land of Women is a feature creative documentary directed by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir, Egyptian filmmakers whose previous films have premiered in IDFA, Cannes and Toronto. Their film is a contemporary coming of age story, with powerful female characters, who are dancing, singing and acting, challenging their patriarchal environment. The story takes place in an unexplored and unseen territory in the south of Egypt. The project has been developed in EAVE Producers’ Workshop, Assembly Lab of Open City Documentary Film Festival, Global Media Makers Workshop of Beirut Cinema Platform, Film Independent Documentary Lab and First Cut Lab. The project is a co-production between Egypt (Felucca Films), Denmark (Magma Film) (Mette-Ann Schepelern) and France (Dolce Vita Films) (Marc Irhmer). We have a distribution deal in Denmark with Camera Film Distribution. We also have a pre-buy deal with SVT. Currently, the project is in an advanced stage of editing. We have a rough cut of the film that is available upon request. We are expecting to finish the project by March 2024. We are still