Heiny Srour

Film by Heiny Srour

Film by Heiny Srour

Explores sexual politics in Vietnam today through the individual stories of four Vietnamese women from different social strata and different generations.

Sheikh Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa, born 1918, is famous throughout the Arab world for his folk songs indicting the ruling classes. Considered the voice of the oppressed, he is banned from state television and radio, and has been imprisoned numerous times, including in 1974 for the occasion of President Nixon's visit. With scenes of Egyptian street life set to his often caustic musical criticisms of his native Egypt's upper classes, the Sheikh's message is that "If a beautiful thing is suppressed today, it will rise tomorrow."

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half century of the Middle East, both in Palestine and in Lebanon. The film is a modern-day fairy tale about the suppressed history of Arab people and especially Arab women. Through the eyes of Leila, a Lebanese student dissatisfied with the official, colonial, male-dominated version of "history," the film reconstructs women's daily unglamorous and silent sacrifices as much a part of history as men's military "heroic" action.

1970년 초, 헤이니 스루르와 제작팀은 800km를 힘겹게 이동하여, 오만 정권의 식민지 억압에 맞서 독립을 위해 싸우는 여성의 이야기를 담았다.

1970년 초, 헤이니 스루르와 제작팀은 800km를 힘겹게 이동하여, 오만 정권의 식민지 억압에 맞서 독립을 위해 싸우는 여성의 이야기를 담았다.

1970년 초, 헤이니 스루르와 제작팀은 800km를 힘겹게 이동하여, 오만 정권의 식민지 억압에 맞서 독립을 위해 싸우는 여성의 이야기를 담았다.

1970년 초, 헤이니 스루르와 제작팀은 800km를 힘겹게 이동하여, 오만 정권의 식민지 억압에 맞서 독립을 위해 싸우는 여성의 이야기를 담았다.

Debut film by Heiny Srour, lost during the Lebanese civil war.