May 22, 2006

Cannes. El-Banate Dol.

Duane Byrge in the Hollywood Reporter on Tahani Rached's El-Banate Dol, screening Out of Competition: "A rousing documentary on the street children of Cairo, These Girls is an agonizing and uplifting depiction of street survival at its most daunting."

These Girls

Variety's Jay Weissberg: "With her mostly female crew, Rached managed to get these girls to relax in ways a male helmer would have found impossible."

Posted by dwhudson at May 22, 2006 1:45 PM