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Date
March 4, 2010
- Time 7 PM
- Location Washington, D.C.
- Price NG Member: $8, 3-Part Series: $18 General Public: $10, 3-Part Series: $24
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Photograph courtesy the filmmakerFrance | Iran | Lebanon | 2008 | 82 min | Farsi & Arabic with English subtitles
Director: Sabine El Gemayel
Niloofar is a twelve-year-old girl whose dream is to read and write in a village where education is only for boys. While assisting her midwife mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a woman who allows her to secretly study. In the meantime, Niloofar’s father arranges her marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first menstruation. When destiny catches up with her, she hides her womanhood from her family to avoid marriage. Until one day, her reality must be faced. Niloofar is Gemayel's directorial debut, and selected in the AFI Fest 2009 for Narrative Competition.
View the Niloofar trailer here.
MEET THE DIRECTOR
After living in Iran and Lebanon for most of her life, Sabine moved to Canada in 1987. She graduated from Stanislas High School, and got a B.A. in Communications Studies from Montreal’s Concordia University in 1993. Sabine wrote and directed three short 16mm films before moving to Los Angeles in 1994. Since then she has edited a number of feature films such as the award-winning Palestinian feature film The Olive Harvest. Currently, Sabine finished her first feature and is writing another screenplay entitled Maternidad.
A discussion with the director Sabine and co-producer Fereshteh Taerpour will follow the film.
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