neda rahmanian

Cinema Wednesdays - Alexandre Wälti

When a girl has to be a boy to sing in public, then fate can only be exceptional or terrifying. All the more so, no doubt, if you were ten years old like Oum Kulthum in early twentieth-century Egypt.^th century, when our father, an imam, invited us to sing nachîds, Muslim religious songs, in front of the whole village and at weddings. That's what the first scene in Looking for Oum Kulthum by Iranian couple Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari.