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09 - Dr. Fawaz Taraboulsi & Director Heiny Srour - Lebanese Film Festival 2018 Award Ceremony
Heiny Srour (born March 23, 1945) is a Lebanese film director. She was the first female Arab filmmaker to have a film, Saat El Tahrir Dakkat or The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, chosen for the Cannes Film Festival. Srour believed that Arab society oppressed women and kept them in a subordinate role, which prevented them from opportunities to create art. Srour advocated for women's rights through her films, her writing, and by funding other filmmakers.
Contents
- 09 Dr Fawaz Taraboulsi Director Heiny Srour Lebanese Film Festival 2018 Award Ceremony
- Career
- Short films and documentaries
- Feature films
- References
Career
Born in 1945 in Beirut, Srour studied sociology at the American University in Beirut and then completed a doctorate in social anthropology at the Sorbonne. Her first film, Bread of Our Mountains (1968, 3', 16mm) was lost during the Lebanese Civil War.
In 1974, her film The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, about an uprising in Oman, was selected to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, making Srour the first Arab woman to have a film selected for the international festival.
Srour was vocal about the position of women in Arab society, and in 1978, along with Tunisian director Salma Baccar and Arab cinema historian Magda Wassef, she announced a new assistance fund "for the self-expression of women in cinema."