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THESE GIRLS Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Tahani Rached , Country: Egypt, Release: 2006, Runtime: 68 This fresh, irresistibly lively, intensely engaging documentary from Egyptian director Tahani Rached follows a band of rebellious teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo. Most of them are fleeing homes of extreme poverty and abuse, and the troubles they encounter on the streets, such as rape, drug addiction, prostitution, pregnancy and motherhood, are not downplayed, but neither is their courage and vibrant camaraderie. Rached followed them patiently for an extended period, and it shows in the empathetic and unsentimental nature of the filmmaking. The individual stubbornness and collective spirit of these young women who refuse to be submissive are as fierce as the odds against which they’re battling. preceded by A DROP OF WATER Deniz Gamze Erguven, France/Turkey, 2006, 19 min. It’s only after she’s disappeared that a man realizes how little he knew the woman he loved. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

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