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Coming forth by day ( Egypt 2013 )

Color: Fiction, color, 96’

Direction: Hala Lotfy

Screenplay: Hala Lotfy

Director of Photography: Mahmoud Lotfi

Sound: Abdel Rahmn Mahmoud

Editing: Heba Othman

Production: Hassala Productions

Synopsis

Any idiot can face a crisis – it is day to day living that wears you out. This is the every day story of two women taking care of their sick man. Those who have fully enjoyed their bodies cannot be submissive. And those who never have? Can they survive?

Réalisateur

Hala Lotfy, Producer, Writer, Director. She made three documentaries independently from 2001 to 2004. Then she worked with Aljazeera documentary channel making seven T.V documentaries in a series called "Arabs of Latin America" from 2005 to 2006. In 2007 she began producing her long feature debut "Coming Forth by Day". The project was suspended for sometime and was resumed after the revolution.