Egyptian movie 'Lailat Al Baby Doll' - The Baby Doll Night, which is directed by Adel Adeeb, won an award for Best Scenario at the International Independent Film Festival that was held in Brussels last week.
At first glance, the movie's title gives a certain impression that's the total opposite of the actual aim of the story.
The movie sheds light on all current events that the world and especially the Arab world is suffering from; The war in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, the Israeli issue, Al Qaeda and Hezbollah!
It's the story of a man and his complicated journey to reach home and celebrate New Year's Eve with his wife!
The Baby Doll Night stars a bunch of the most famous actors in the Arab world from Egypt, Syria and Tunisia.
The names include Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Mahmoud Hemida, Nour el Sherif, Laila Oloui, Soulaf Fawakherji, Ghada Abdel Razek, Jamal Sulaiman and Durra Zarrouk.
Congratulations to the cast and crew of The Baby Doll Night ... many more successes in the future!
Comments
waleg,
you should also mention that a moroccan movie "samira's garden" , directed by latif Lahlou won the jury award at this festival.
Meriem,
Thank you for your comment.
Can you write about this news? We will be happy to publish your work and you will be a new guest writer on Waleg :)
This is such a good movie. It’s been given its due already at various festivals and because of what it covers — love, marriage, sex, too much work, too little work, impotence, shoes and Alzheimers — it deserves a general release. Written and directed by Moroccan filmmaker Latif Lahlou, Samira’s Garden combines a simple subject with lashings of social and political observation about women’s lot. But it’s no tract. This is a set of ruinous human relationships that twist and turn, show chinks of light and then falter and fail again.
Samira is the young woman whose family nag her to get married. They find her a good looking silver fox(Mohammed Khouyyi) who’s a lot older but is prosperous, devout and seems just the ticket. She falls in line, aware of the attractions of stability and economic certainty, and then it turns out that her new husband is impotent. Samira is played by Sanaa Mouziane, an actress both sumptuous and sexy, with terrific comic ability and a lovely free and easy habitation of this part.
Is this "Samira fee el day3a"?
If so, I watched it when I was in Morocco last January. I thought it was an amazing film, very daring and diffently shows that Moroccan cinema has come a long way.
It is very contrevercial as it displays women's sexuality and the choices they are forced to make between a career and having a family.
Samira has left her life in the city of Casablanca where she had a good job to marry an older man and live very far away in a small town. She then discovers that she had made the wrong decision. Instead of being treated as a wife and start a family, her husband just wanted her to take care of his ill father Nothing More........................
It is a very complex story that is depressing but has a lot of humor in it.
This films is worth seeing (if you don't understand moroccan, it is subtitled in french)
if anyone who lives in LA is interested in seeing this film here are the details:
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
James Bridges Theater
Melnitz Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
oops wrong dates :( sorry