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NILOOFAR

By Sabine EL GEMAYEL

PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, IRAN, LEBANON
- Languages
- ARABIC, FARSI
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Director(s)
- Sabine EL GEMAYEL
- Cast
- Fatemeh MOTAMED ARYA, Roya NONAHALI, Saghar SLOLAYMANI
- Producer(s)
- Jean BRÉHAT (3B PRODUCTIONS), Rachid BOUCHAREB (3B PRODUCTIONS), Fereshteh TAERPOUR (Khaneh)
- Synopsis
- Niloofar is a twelve-year-old Irakian girl whose dream is to read and write in a village where education is only for boys. While assisting her midwife mother during a delivery, Niloofar meets a woman who allows her to secretly study. In the meantime, Niloofar’s father arranges her marriage to an older man once she becomes a woman. Horrified by this notion, Niloofar does everything in her power to postpone her first periods. When destiny catches up with her, she hides her womanhood from her community to pursue her dream. Until one day, the truth is revealed.