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Amal, an angry Egyptian teenager, matures into a young woman as she searches for her place and her identity in a male-dominated society and a country that is in constant political turmoil.
Amal, an angry teenager, comes of age in a post-revolution Egypt that is undergoing tremendous change. Filmed over five years, ‘Amal’ is an observational self-discovery journey that follows a young female from the age of 15 till the age of 20 while she is searching for her place, identity and sexuality in a male-dominated society. As she grows from childhood into adulthood, she realises how limited her choices are as a young female living in an Arab police state in a post-revolution era.

Credits

Director
Mohamed Siam
Screenwriter
Mohamed Siam
Producer
Myriam Sassine
Production Company
Abbout Productions

About the Director

Mohamed Siam
Mohamed Siam is a fiction and documentary filmmaker. A grantee of Sundance, World Cinema Fund, and Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, his films have been screened at NYFF, Karlovy Vary, and Carthage, where he won The Grand Prize and Best Cinematography in 2017 for his first film, 'Whose Country'? His film 'Amal' was IDFA Opening Film that won Sheffield Jury Prize, London and FidaDoc prizes and screened in
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