Inas El Degheidy (born 10 March 1953) is an Egyptian film director.
Inas directs films of social and realistic essence, often by using explicit scenes; this has made her being labelled as "controversial". While her films often analyze women's struggles in society, she does not like the term "women's cinema".
Life
Inas El Degheidy was born in
Cairo
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, one of eight children of a conservative, middle-class family. Her father taught
Arabic
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. while he was strict, he was the only one to support her in her family when she wanted to go to film school.
She graduated from the Cinema Institute in 1975, and directed her first film ''Pardon Law'' in 1985.
Her movie ''Al-Samt'' (Silence) tackles the subject of a woman
sexually abused
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by her father. The Egyptian Board of Censors has demanded that the script be modified to ensure the father is portrayed as mentally diseased and thus unrepresentative of the general Egyptian male figure.
[Mohammad Abdel Rahman]
Inas Al Degheidy: Breaking Taboos in an Age of Islamists
, ''Al Akhbar English'', 5 January 2012.
Films
* ''`Afwan ayuha al-qanun'' (Pardon, Law), 1985
* ''al-Tahhadi'' (The Challenge), 1988
* ''Zaman al-mamnu`'' (Age of the Forbidden), 1988
* ''Imra`a wahida la takfi'' (One Woman is Not Enough), 1990
* ''Qadiyat Samiha Badran'' (The Case of Samiha Badran), 1992
* ''al-Qatila'' (Lady Killer), 1992
* ''Discu disku'' (Disco, Disco), 1993
* ''Lahm rakhis'' (Cheap Flesh), 1994
* ''Istakoza'' (Lobster), 1996
* ''Dantilla'' (Lace), 1998. Winner of best director at
Pusan Film Festival
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.
* ''Kalam al-layl'' (Night Whispers), 1999
* ''al-Warda al-hamra'' (The Red Rose), 2000
* ''Mudhakkarat murahiqa'' (Diary of a Teenage Girl), 2001
* Night Talk, 2002
* ''Al-Bahithat `an al-huriya'' (Looking for Freedom), 2004
References
External links
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1953 births
Living people
Egyptian film directors
Egyptian women film directors
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