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Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017)
90 minMusic
TMDb6.0/106 votes
A film within a film, "Looking for Oum Kulthum" is the plight of an Iranian woman artist/filmmaker living in exile, as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum. Through her difficult journey, not unlike her heroine's, she has to face the struggles, sacrifices and the price that a woman has to pay if she dares to cross the lines of a conservative male dominated society.
Country: Qatar, Germany, Austria, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, France
Director: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari
Cast
Neda Rahmanian
Yasmine Raeis
Mehdi Moinzadeh
Qais Nashif
Keywords
Plot:islambiographyfilm within a film
