Yesterday, Sunday, the activities of the fourth edition of the Women’s Film Festival, which was held under the title “With their eyes”, concluded between 12 and 16 October in Hammamet, Tunisia.
The Tunisian Federation of Film Clubs organized the festival this year after stopping during 2020 and 2021 due to the Corona pandemic.
The festival dedicated to short films has returned to be a compass for women’s films and an opportunity for viewers to discover the creativity, ideas and directions of women’s cinematic artistic contents.
And participated in this year’s edition of 17 films, eight of them by female directors from Egypt, namely Aya Ashraf Al-Mursi, Iman Adel Abdel Aziz, Basma Sherine, Mai Hamdi Ashour and Lamia Idris. Safia Muhammad Al-Sawy, Kawthar Younis and Reem Ali Hassan.
Tunisia participated in four films directed by Amna Fatni, Nohad Rahmani, Yasmine Anan and Nada Shaaban.
Morocco participated in a film directed by Wejdan Khaled, Jordan with a film directed by Dana Mounir Awais, Lebanon with a film directed by Christine Ibrahim, Algeria with a film directed by Souad Douaibi, and Palestine with a work by director Rana Abu Shkheidam.
Manal Souissi, director of the festival, said its main idea was to provide “a platform for female filmmakers to screen films, regardless of whether the films are about women’s issues or not.”
The festival also witnessed the organization of a number of artistic events on the sidelines of the festival, such as a script-writing workshop for Egyptian director Basil Ramses, and a drama therapy workshop, which was managed by Lebanese director Zina Daccache.