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In ‘The Brink of Dreams,’ Ayman El Amir and Nada Riyadh Celebrate ‘Daring’ All-Female Theater Troupe, Reveal New Projects (EXCLUSIVE)
Egypt’s Ayman El Amir and Nada Riyadh celebrate all-female street theater troupe in ‘The Brink of Dreams,’ premiering at Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
In every way?’” recalled Nada Riyadh, who directed “The Brink of Dreams” with Ayman El Amir. It took four years to complete the doc, premiering at Cannes’ Critics Week and sharing in exclusivity with Variety its trailer and first look images. Currently, the directoraila duo is also developing two feature fiction projects: “A Pair of Shoes in the Dark Corner of the Moon,” to be directed by El Amir, set in the same village as the doc – “It’s a dark comedy about the boys of Barsha and their dreams” – and Riyadh’s “Moonblind” about a 12-year-old girl who escapes from Cairo to the south disguised as a boy, after stabbing her sexually abusive father.
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