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Egyptian Director Sara Shazli’s ‘Your Daughter’ Charts Young Filmmaker’s Struggle to Confront Painful Past
The director's second feature is a personal story about her struggle to confront her mother, producer Marianne Khoury, about her childhood traumas.
The director’s sophomore feature is a deeply personal story about her struggle to emerge from the long shadow cast by her mother, powerhouse producer and filmmaker Marianne Khoury, while also preparing to become a first-time mom. The director described Khoury — the niece and longtime collaborator of late Egyptian screen legend Youssef Chahine, whose Misr International Films she runs to this day — as a “workaholic” who was more concerned with the day-to-day grind of the movie business than the task of raising her children. Working alongside editor Nadia Ben Rachid, the longtime collaborator of Malian-Mauritanian auteur Abderrahmane Sissako (“Timbuktu”), she combines that archival material with contemporary footage, as well as fictional recreations of scenes from her childhood.
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