BIG LITTLE WOMEN

By Nadia FARES

HOF INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - INTERNATIONALE HOFER FILMTAGE - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2022

Three generations of women rebel against patriarchal prohibitions. In this cinematic letter, Swiss-Egyptian director Nadia Fares pays tribute to her father as she recounts 75 years of women’s struggles both in Egypt, her father’s country, and in Switzerland, her mother’s country, where she grew up.

Festivals
& Awards

19. FIFDH, Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights 2021
Impact Day (Industry)
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Social issues, Female director
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, EGYPT
    • Languages
    • ARABIC-EGYPT, ENGLISH, SWISS-GERMAN
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nadia FARES
    • Producer(s)
    • Véronique VERGARI (LUNA FILMS), Agnès BOUTRUCHE (LUNA FILMS)
    • Synopsis
    • How to speak with tenderness of feminist struggles to an enlightened patriarch?
      Painting her story with a very personal and poetic brush, Nadia Fares transforms a tribute to her beloved Egyptian father into a chronicle of the condition of women in Egypt and in Switzerland. She explores the impact of patriarchal traditions in the East and the West, revealing them as mirror images.