Mohamed Amin (Egyptian film director)

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Mohamed Amin
NationalityEgyptian
OccupationFilm director

Mohamed Amin is an Egyptian film director.

Life

Amin's first film, Educational Film (2001), dealt with the theme of sexual repression in Egyptian society: three sexually frustrated friends embark on a picaresque adventure, their group growing in size as they attempt to watch a porn video. The Night Baghdad Fell (2006) is an anti-American political fantasy, focusing on the reaction of an upper-middle-class family in Cairo to the Iraq invasion. [1] Two Girls from Egypt (2010) depicts two single women in their early thirties, examining themes of spinsterhood, sexual experience, unemployment and political corruption. [2] The film was banned in Kuwait. [3]

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References

  1. Amira Howeidy, After Baghdad, is Cairo next?, Al Jazeera , 12 January 2006.
  2. Ekram Ibrahim, 'Two Girls From Egypt': Perils of spinsterhood, Egypt Independent, 22 June 2010. Accessed 30 October 2018.
  3. The al-A’rabiyah Company: The fact that “Bentein min Masr” (“Two Girls from Egypt”) was Barred from Screening inside Kuwait is an Internal Matter which does not Affect the Company, elcinema.com, 12 January 2011.
  4. "Febrayer al Eswed (2013) - IMDb". IMDb .
  5. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine : خارج النص - فيلم فبراير الأسود.. البحث عن الطبقات الآمنة. YouTube .