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Jul 18, 2018 · My Favorite Fabric: Directed by Gaya Jiji. With Manal Issa, Thuraya Baghdadi, Ula Tabari, Mariah Tannoury. Upon the Arabic Spring a young woman rents a room in the neighbor's brothel where she can dream about her sexual desires and identity.
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- Drama
- Gaya Jiji
- 2018-07-18
My Favourite Fabric (French: Mon tissu préféré) is a 2018 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Gaya Jiji. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Cast. Metin Akdülger as The dream man; Manal Issa as Nahla; Ula Tabari as Madame Jiji; Gaya Jiji as Manal; Wissam Fares as Salem ...
May 11, 2018 Full Review Joseph Fahim Middle East Eye My Favorite Fabric is a film with a confused vision: a disjointed and, at times, inane affair that frequently descends into...
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- Manal Issa
- Gaya Jiji
- Drama
A Syrian film set amid the chaos of the Arab Spring and increasingly militaristic state-sanctioned violence, Gaya Jiji’s My Favourite Fabric (Mon Tissu préféré) is a small, domestic drama about twentysomething Nahla (Manal Issa) and her attempt to find love.
Jul 18, 2018 · Overview. Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA.
Critics reviews. Damascus, Spring 2011. Nahla, 25, is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. But when he chooses her younger sister, Myriam, she gets closer to her new neighbor, the mysterious Ms. Jiji.
May 11, 2018 · In search of freedom in an oppressive society, a defiant young woman exerts her complex personality in a tottering-on-the-brink Damascus in My Favourite Fabric (Mon tissu préferé).
