Souad: Directed by Ayten Amin. With Bassant Ahmed, Basmala Elghaiesh, Hussein Ghanem, Hagar Mahmoud. The film revolves around the relationship of two teenage sisters in one of Egypt's Nile Delta cities, one of them holds a secret life in…
Amin’s assured, harrowing film follows an Egyptian university student (a breakout Bassant Ahmed) who leads a double life, presenting different versions of herself to her conservative society and her tradition-flaunting peers.
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As for Elghaiesh who plays Rabab, she was only 13 but “she was very bold.” Amin revealed that the girls never read the script before shooting and they went through five months of intensive rehearsals.