Mon tissu préféré (2018)
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Manal Issa, Ula Tabari, Souraya Baghdadi, Mariah Tannoury, Nathalie Issa, Saad Lostan, Wissam Fares, Amani Ibrahim, Metin Akdülger
A young woman hoping an arranged marriage might offer freedom from Damascus faces a setback when her intended chooses her sister.
The story
In 2011, as the Syrian civil war begins, 25-year-old Nahla lives with her mother and two sisters in a dreary Damascus suburb, where she faces pressure to marry. She longs for freedom and hopes an arranged marriage to Samir, who lives in the United States, could let her leave Syria. When Samir unexpectedly decides to marry her younger sister, Myriam, Nahla’s hopes are thwarted. She then grows closer to Mrs. Jiji, a recently arrived neighbor who both fascinates and unsettles her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In 2011, at the start of the Syrian civil war, the story follows Nahla, a 25-year-old single woman who lives with her mother and two sisters in a dreary suburb of Damascus and is under pressure to get married without delay. She is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country through an arranged marriage to Samir, who lives in the United States. But he unexpectedly decides to marry her younger sister, Myriam. Nahla then grows closer to Mrs. Jiji, a neighbor who has recently moved into the building and both fascinates and unsettles her. In fact, Mrs. Jiji runs an illicit brothel in her apartment. Nahla will defy taboos and discover Mrs. Jiji’s world of fantasies.
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