Written by Fouad
Saturday, May 20, 2023 01:15 AM
The star was present Hind Sabri At the Cannes International Film Festival, to attend her film “Banat Intimacy”, which is participating in the official competition of the festival, starring Hend Sabry, directed and written by Tunisian Kawthar Ben Hania.
And the management of the Cannes International Film Festival had announced the selection of the Tunisian film, Banat Intimacy, directed by Kawthar Ben Hania, starring Hind Sabry, to participate in the official competition of the Cannes Festival. The film is directed and written by Kawthar Ben Hania and produced by Habib Attia and Nadim Sheikh Rouheh.
The film is derived from the true story of a woman named Olfa, who has four daughters, and how the director and author sees the life of this woman cinematically in a way that combines documentary and drama, as if it were a documentary about the movie itself..
Hind Sabry expressed her happiness and pride in the presence of her film in the official competition of the Cannes Festival for the first time in its history after sharing her film with the late director Moufida Talaatli Silence of Palaces in the Nazra section and winning the Golden Camera Award at the time, which is the first time for director Kawthar Ben Haniyeh in the official competition of the Cannes Festival..
Kawthar Ben Hania is a Tunisian director, born in Sidi Bouzid. She continued her studies in film directing at the Institute of Arts and Cinema in Tunis and at the University of “La Femis” in Paris. In 2005, she joined the Faculty of Screenwriting at the same institute in Paris. The documentary “Imams Go to School” and in 2013 participated in several festivals with a short film, “The Hand of the Tablet”, which won more than ten awards, including the Golden Tanit from the Carthage Film Festival. As for her first feature film, “Shalat Tunis”, it opened at the Cannes Film Festival, the acid section, and won many international awards.
