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BOOTLEG

الممنوعات

By Reem MORSI

LES CINEMAS DU MONDE - LA FABRIQUE CINEMA DE L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS - as PROMO

Comedy - Development 2019

This story is about women’s right to sexual pleasure and the fear of womanhood, which manifests as the need to control women through shaming their sexuality and making female pleasure a taboo.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, First film
- Countries
- EGYPT, JORDAN
- Languages
- ARABIC, ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Reem MORSI
- Producer(s)
- Rula NASSER (The Imaginarium Films)
- Synopsis
- Bootleg is a feminist dramatic comedy that takes place in present-day Cairo. Roukaya is an outwardly obedient Egyptian Muslim woman living in Canada in an unsatisfactory marriage. She discovers sexual pleasure through sex toys. She decides to go back to Egypt and, together with two other women, starts a risky underground sex toy manufacturing business. As the business blooms, it attracts unwanted attention.