Kaleem Aftab “About Her,” which world premiered in International Competition this week at the Cairo Film Festival, began life as a short story, which director Islam El Azzazi penned in 2003.
In 2017, he started adapting the story for the screen.“The short story faded, somehow,” he says of the changes he made in the process. “I don’t see what’s happening on-screen as a fantasy; it somehow has its own reality.”The Berlinale Talents alumni says that, initially, “I was refusing to write a screenplay.
At the time, I had two long screenplays that I had spent six years trying to fund. I was trying not to get into that phase again.” So for the next year and a half, he would explain the project as scenes. “I think this helped develop a certain.
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