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Release Date:
April 30, 2024
Original Title:
The Mother and the Bear
Genres:
Documentary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 11
Egyptian filmmaker Yasmina El Kamaly reflects on her family’s matrilineal history by examining her relationship with her mother, as well as the complicated bond between her mother and grandmother. Using journals, home videos and letters, she locates their longing for affection and the dysfunctional ways they go about getting it—offering and rebuffing attention, smothering and straining love—as the root.
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Cinematography:
Yasmina El Kamaly
Color Grading:
Mostafa Medhat
Director:
Yasmina El Kamaly
Editor:
Yasmina El Kamaly
Simon El Habre
Producer:
Amal Ramsis
Sound Designer:
Shady farid
Writer:
Yasmina El Kamaly
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