Papicha

Jour De Fete | Release Date (Streaming): May 29, 2020

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JLuis_001Apr 12, 2022

''Women should stay at home to be closer to Allah.
When they go outside they expose themselves to men.''
''What if she needs to support her family?'' ''She asks her father, brother or husband for permission.'' ''What if she has no one? is''Women should stay at home to be closer to Allah.
When they go outside they expose themselves to men.''

''What if she needs to support her family?''

''She asks her father, brother or husband for permission.''

''What if she has no one? is she left to starve?''

''With Allah everything works''

''I am sick and tired of the way things work.''

This film is set in 1997 and you could easily say that it takes place in the present day in lands controlled by Islamic fundamentalists who brutally curtail women's rights, for the simple reason that they consider them inferior. Papicha is a story of rebellion that although it uses a real historical background, its story is centered on its protagonist and therefore its display of the repression is only focused on her eyes and so it feels somewhat limited, yet it never loses sight of its message.… Expand

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