''Looking for Oum Kulthum'' is a 2017 internationally co-produced

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

about the Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum, directed by Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the

2017 Toronto International Film Festival The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down b ...

Cast

* Neda Rahmanian as Mitra *

Yasmin Raeis Yasmin Raeis ( ar, ياسمين رئيس, born 15 September 1985) is an Egyptian actress. She started her acting career in a television series called "3ard khas". In addition, she was the main character under the supervision of the movie directo ...

as Ghada * Mehdi Moinzadeh as Amir *

Kais Nashef Kais Nashef ( ar, قيس ناشف, he, קאיס נאשף; born ) is a Palestinian (Arab-Israeli) actor of both Palestinian and German descent. Born in Tayibe, Israel, to an Arab-Muslim father, and to a German-Christian mother. Nashef studied a ...

as Ahmad/Latif

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* 2017 films 2017 drama films German drama films Austrian drama films Italian drama films 2010s Persian-language films 2010s Arabic-language films Films directed by Shirin Neshat 2010s English-language films 2017 multilingual films German multilingual films Austrian multilingual films Italian multilingual films 2010s German films {{2010s-drama-film-stub