Looking for Oum Kulthum (2017)
- Directed by
- Shirin Neshat
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Morocco, Germany, Austria, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- AA
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A filmmaker works on a biopic about the legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kulthum. The film balances the creative struggles of making the movie with imagined scenes from the singer's life.
contemplativebiographicalintrospectivemeditativeemotionally layeredvisually poeticmelancholicartistic
What happens
Looking for Oum Kulthum is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film about the Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum, directed by Shirin Neshat in collaboration with Shoja Azari. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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