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Jun 14, 2017 · Syrian filmmaker Gaya Jiji’s long-gestated drama My Favourite Fabric, about a young woman’s voyage of self-discovery in a Damascus brothel on the eve of Syria’s civil war, has started shooting...
Gaya Jiji is known for My Favorite Fabric (2018), Matin, midi, soir... et matin (2011) and Nénette, orang-outan de Bornéo (2009).
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- Gaya Jiji
Jun 1, 2016 · PARIS — One of Syria’s rare women directors, Gaya Jiji has fled her war-torn homeland to live in Paris where she is developing her anticipated feature debut, “My Favorite Fabric” — a...
May 12, 2018 · He longed to travel, but his father, of whom he was the favourite son, loved him too deeply to let him go. His 11 brothers, driven mad with jealousy, thought only of killing him…. This is the story recounted in the film by Syrian director Gaya Jiji, My Favourite Fabric [+.
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.
Oct 10, 2020 · My Favourite Fabric (Mon tissu préféré), directed by the Syrian filmmaker Gaya Jiji, played at Cannes in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section in 2018. I missed it that year and found the film on MUBI LIBRARY’s “Women with Movie Cameras” collection, devoted to female filmmakers.
Gaya Jiji is a Syrian director born in Damascus in 1979. Holder of a master's degree in directing from the University of Paris VIII, the young woman obtained a grant from the script development fund, awarded by the Amiens festival.
