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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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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...
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 [+.
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.
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...
MY FAVOURITE FABRIC. by Gaya Jiji. synopsis. Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the revolution. 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.
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.
