A group of young Syrian women embark on producing a play that exposes the culture of misogyny and sexual abuse that has affected the lives of women in their country for generations. They want to denounce the oppression of women, knowing that their production will make their lives more difficult. The protagonists move around the war-torn city in search of stories that will be the basis of the play. But the questions that arise are closer than they imagined.
Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh
Heba Khaled was born in Damascus and studied Arabic Literature at Damascus University. She worked as freelance fixer for CNN, and Reuters in Damascus and Beirut between 2011 and 2013 and worked as a writer and executive producer on these and other Arab media channels. In 2014, she started in her first short-film People of the Wasteland. The same year, she moved to Berlin where she assisted the filmmaker Talal Derki in the direction of his film Of Fathers and Sons, which won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in 2018 and was Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary Feature in 2020.
Filmography
– People of Wasteland (2018)
– Of Fathers and Sons (2018)
– Of Fathers and Sons (2018)