#banat thanawy
This year’s Christmas movie release in Egypt may pull you away from the lingering holiday spirit. It certainly did for me. Though the final moral delivered in the script seemed jarringly inconsistent with the story itself, Banat Thanawy (High School Girls) gave a raw, gritty, and at times empowering telling of the vulnerability of working class women on the cusp of adulthood. An Ahmed El Sobky production, the film is directed by Mahmoud Kamel and stars Jamila Awad, Huda El…
