Egyptian Joan of Arc

Overview

Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc’ is a creative documentary that explores issues of female emancipation in ‘post post-revolutionary’ Egypt. Beginning with the return journey to Cairo of a filmmaker long absent from her own country, the film weaves a series of intimate portraits composed of interviews, poetic voice-over and dance; exploring themes of oppression, guilt and faith with Egyptian women, many of them artists. Reflecting on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 film ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ – in which the female figure is martyred by the patriarchal forces surrounding her – ‘Jeanne’ is a contemporary commentary that melds documentary and dance with poetic storytelling and myth to arrive at the core of the filmmaker’s enquiries into the circumstances of women in Egypt today.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 2016

Original language

Arabic

Spoken languages

Arabic

Countries

Egypt, Germany, Kuwait, Qatar

Director

Iman Kamel

Producer

Talal Al-Muhanna

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt5887286