Aswan International Women’s Film Festival held a symposium titled ” Women in Youssef Idris Cinema” moderated by AIWFF’s artistic advisor director Maggie Morgan, veteran Egyptian director Magdy Ahmed Ali, professor of theater at the American University Nesma Youssef Idris and writer and storyteller Ahmed Abu Khanijer participated in the symposium.
Maggie Morgan said that some of the films that conveyed the literature of Youssef Idris represent important signs in the cinema.
Morgan spoke about the image of women in Youssef Idris works and how did the cinema reflect them, including “El Haram” film directed by Henry Barakat, and ” La Waket Lel Hob” directed by Salah Abu Seif, and “Al-Nadaha” directed by Hussein Kamal, and “Qaa El Madina” directed by Hossam El Din Mostafa.
At first, Nesma Youssef Idris said that he would have liked his works to reach the cinema, but he was interfering with the scenario, seeing that the directors find it difficult to communicate his feelings through the cinema, and she explained that his relationship with the woman was ambiguous until he gave birth to her, so he had two sons before her, but he was insisting on having a daughter. And he began to look at women in a completely different way, and it became more and more profound, and it appears a lot in his works, and his feeling for women was very high.
Source: Egypt Today Magazine