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Synopsis:

Cairo, January 25, 2013. A string of severe sexual assaults takes place in Tahrir Square on the day of the second anniversary of the revolution. In response, a huge crowd of enraged women surges onto the streets. Samaher Alqadi joins them, taking her camera with her as protection but also to document the protests of a burgeoning women’s rebellion. She has no idea where the story will take her. Samaher’s filming coincides with her falling pregnant, and this prompts her to consider her childhood in Palestine and what it means to be a woman and a mother. She begins an imaginary conversation with her own mother, who dies before she can see her one last time. In an intimate inner dialogue that guides us through the narrative, Samaher starts to form the words that are left unsaid and to share her deepest secrets. She goes on a traumatic visit back to her parent’s house in Ramallah where she conjures up and confronts dark memories of the childhood she has managed to escape. Meanwhile, the struggle in Egypt continues and, even after the birth of her son, Samaher still finds herself on the frontline. As I Want is a crucial, hard-hitting political document, an essay film and an inward journey in which individual emancipation is linked to the collective process of liberation in the Arab world.


الملخص:

القاهرة ، 25 يناير 2013، سلسلة من الاعتداءات الجنسية في ميدان التحرير في الذكرى الثانية للثورة. ورداً على ذلك ، خرج حشد من النساء الغاضبات إلى الشوارع. تنضم إليهن سماهر القاضي ، مصطحبة معها الكاميرا كنوع من الحماية وتوثيق الاحتجاجات على تمرد نسائي متصاعد. لم تكن تعلم إلى أين ستأخذها القصة. فيما يتزامن الحدث مع حملها ، هذا يدفعها للتفكير حول طفولتها في فلسطين وماذا يعني أن تكون امرأة وأم. 

 

 

Directors: Samaher Alqadi

The Palestinian filmmaker and screenwriter was born one of nine children and grew up in the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. She first worked for the Palestinian Ministry of Culture before being accepted into the Egyptian Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo. An emerging voice in Arabic documentary, her films focus on the evolving status of women and dissident artists in the Middle East. As I Want is her first feature-length documentary.

المخرج:

ولدت المخرجة وكاتبة السيناريو الفلسطينية واحدةً من تسعة أطفال ونشأت في مخيم الجلزون للاجئين بالقرب من رام الله في الضفة الغربية المحتلة. عملت في البداية في وزارة الثقافة الفلسطينية قبل قبولها في المعهد العالي المصري للسينما في القاهرة. صوت ناشئ في الفيلم الوثائقي العربي، تركز أفلامها على تطور مكانة النساء والفنانات المنشقات في الشرق الأوسط

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  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    88 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    Egypt, France, Norway, Palestine, Germany
  • Director
    Samaher Alqadi
  • Screenwriter
    Samaher Alqadi
  • Producer
    Karim El Hakim
  • Cinematographer
    Samaher Alqadi, Karim El Hakim
  • Editor
    Gladys Joujou